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THE 
PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

THE OLDEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS EXTANT 
IN PLYMOUTH ARCHIVES 

PRINTED VERBATIM, SOME REPRODUCED 



COPIED AND EDITED BY 

CHARLES HENRY POPE 

If 

AUTHOR OF 

The Pioneers of Massachusetts, Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire 
AND Many Genealogies and Other Works 



WITH A REVIEW OF BRADFORD'S HISTORY 
OF PLIMOUTH PLANTATION 



BOSTON, MASS. 

C. E. GOODSPEED & COMPANY 

1918 



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Copyrighted; 1918 
By C. E. Goodspeed & Company 






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PREFACE 

HARDLY a more interesting and varied collection of literary miscellany 
exists than that preserved by an unknown recorder of deeds in 
The Plymouth Scrap Book. In this collection have been pre- 
served the odds and ends of the original Plymouth Colony records remain- 
ing after many years of neglect, indifference and abuse had reduced 
the valued archives, to a tattered and fragmentary remainder. The date of 
the collection itself is unknown: the dates of the documents themselves are 
between 1636 and 1693. They therefore embrace the formative period of 
the Colony, beginning some sixteen years after its foundation. 

What is here presented is a verbatim transcript of the original Scrap 
Book, itself well known to antiquarians. As distinguished from "The Records 
of Plymouth Colony," published by the State of Massachusetts in 1855, there 
is offered here a modern transcript of the only original records now extant 
and pertaining to the lives and times of those commonly credited with the 
entire credit for the foundation of "New England." Its place in the great 
mass of literature concerning the early colonial life of North America, there- 
fore, is that of a practical replica, valuable to students of history and gene- 
alogy as a ready reference and a means of abridging the tremendously diffi- 
cult task of deciphering the characteristic but obscure chirography of the 
"Puritans." To those interested in early colonial life and customs, the Scrap 
Book affords a fund of useful lore. Finally, in the rough and ready attempts 
at formulating the more vital transactions of pioneer life may be traced, the 
growing need for a new dominion in civil, as well as in religious affairs. Thus 
in a remote way, these same documents faintly echo the commencement of 
the transition from "separatism" to that still more complete independence 
of the democracy that was to be established by a succeeding generation. 

This transcript, with plated reproductions of some of the originals, is 
published posthumously, manuscript and photographs having been in the 
hands of the printer at the time of the compiler's death. The book had been 
planned as an instructive and more or less popular feature in connection 
with the proposed tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims. 
The Historical Sketch and Review of Bradford's History are, therefore, 
explained. They are included in perpetuation of the original plan and in the 
belief that their strong controversial flavor adds to the value of the collection 
through perpetuating the argumentative atmosphere that surrounds all anti- 
quarian lore. 

N. B. P. 

New York City. 
August, 191 8. 



CONTENTS 

This collection contains eleven deeds, two powers of attorney, fifty-seven 
inventories, forty-three bonds, three letters, eleven depositions, four wills and 
eleven writs; total one hundred and forty-two documents. 

PAGE 

1. Inventory of estate of William Palmer, the younger, by Mr. William Brewster, 

Mr. Thomas Prence and Edmund Chandelor; Aug. 25, 1636. Reproduced 9 

2. Bond of Mrs. Margaret Hicks (hick.es) for administration of estate of her hus- 
band Ephraim Hicks, Thomas Willett, surety; Mar. 11, 1649. Reproduced . 10 

3. Letter of Capt. John Sanford, Assistant, anent Almy matters, before John Crans- 
ton, governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation; June 28, 1679 . . 10 

4. Inventory of estate of John Barker by Kenelm Winslow, Joseph Beedle, Edmund 
[Himshaw] and John Bourne; Dec. 17, 1652 II 

5. Inventory of estate of John Ewer by William Crocker and John Smith; May 

31, 1652 . 12 

6. Bill of sale of interest in a mill with agreement, Josias Winslow, Jr., and William 
Ford; Apr. 3, 1657 13 

7. Bond of Richard Thayer and Increase Robinson to administer the estate of Mr. 

John Paifie, of Boston; Oct. 29, 1679 13 

8. Bond of Job Hawkings, estate of Maj. William Holmes; Mar. 8, 1657-8 ... 14 

9. Bond of Richard Curtis, estate of John Curtis; Mar. 4, 1679-80 15 

10. Inventory of Sara Pery by Edward and Henry Dillingham and Thomas Burge; 

June 8, 1659 15 

11. Deed of Edward Gray to Thomas Burden (Purdane), countersigned by Dor- 
othy and John Gray; Oct. 27, 1680, and Oct. 12, 1682 16 

12. Bond of John Kingsly, estate of Samuel Jones; Oct. 9, 1662 18 

13. Inventory of estate of William Sherman; Dec. 30, 1680 18 

14. Bond of John Hammond, guardian of children of Samuel House, John Sutton, 
surety; Oct. 7, 1663. Reproduced 19 

15. Bond of Israel Holmes to pay children of William Sherman; Mar. 8, 1681-2. . 20 

16. Inventory of estate of Nicholas Niqkerson by William Griffith and Zechariah 
Rider; Aug. 21, 1682 21 

17. Inventory of estate of James Pitney by John Bradford and John Bourne; Mar. 

21, 1663-4 24 

18. Bond of Naomi Silvester, estate of Richard Silvester, John Silvester, surety; 

Dec. I, 1663 24 

19. Inventory of estate of Benajah Pratt by William Harlow, Joseph Donham and 
Jonathan Pratt; May 6, 1682 25 

20. Bond of Margaret Soule, estate of Zechariah Soule; William Ford, Sen., surety; 

Mar. 2, 1663 26 

21. Inventory of estate of Francis Combe by Isaac Howland and Samuel Wood, alias 
Atwood; Jan. 5, 1682 27 

22. Bond of William Swift and Richard Chadwell, estate of Mrs. Jone Swift; Mar. 

4, 1663. Reproduced 29 

23. Inventory of estate of Philip Delano by Josiah Standish and Jonathan Alden; 

Mar. 4, 1681-2 29 

24. Inventory of estate of John Fish by Richard Bourne and Nathaniel Fish; Nov. 

18, 1663 ' 30 



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25. Inventory of estate of Nicholas Wade by Isaac Bucke, Sen., and Samuel Clap; 
Mar. II, 1683 32 

26. Inventory of estate of Going White by James Cudworth and Isaac Bucke; Dec. 

8, 1664 33 

27. Inventory of estate of Samuel Wheaton by Hugh Cole, Obadiah Bowen and 

Caleb Eddy; Feb. 14, 1683 34 

28. Inventory of estate of Cornelius . . . , Irishman, by George Lewis, Joshua 
Lumbart and James Claghorne; Dec,. 20, 1664 34 

29. (a) Deed of Samuel Nash to William Cllark of property appraised by John Cole 

and Philip Leonard; Apr. 18, 1683 35 

(b) Bond of Thomas Wood for Elizabeth Wheaton's administration of estate 

of Samuel Wheaton; Mar. 5, 1683-4 36 

(c) Memorandum of a verdict; no name or date 37 

{d) Discharge of Joseph Barstow and license of Joseph Silvester to keep an ordi- 
nary; not dated 37 

(e) Notice of warning away of John Abrahams from Yarmouth; not dated . . 37 

(/) Court order for payment of Robert Stanford and Nathaniel Turner; not 

dated 37 

30. Bond of Susan Wheston with Joseph Whiston and Edward Jenkens, sureties, estate 

of John Wheston; Oct. 6, 1664. Reproduced 37 

31. Inventory of estate of Samuel Chanjar by Thomas Delano and John Rouse; 

Sept. 19, 1683 38 

32. Bond of Ann Torrey, estate of Lieut. James Torrey, Walter Hatch, surety; Oct. 

S, 1665 40 

33. Inventory of estate of Samuel Witherell by John Cushing and Abraham Sutt- 

liffe; Mar. 4, 1683-4 40 

34. Bond of John Cowin and James Cudworth to pay children of Richard Man; 

Oct. 5, 1665 41 

35. Inventory of estate of Martha Nelson by John Doty and Jo^hn Rickej-; Mar. 7, 
1683-4 42 

36. Inventory of estate of Francis Street by Will Harvey, Edward Bobbett and 
Jonathan Briggs; June 3, 1665 43 

37. Bond of Zechariah Jenkins and William Bassit, estate of John Jenkins; Oct. 29, 

1684 44 

38. (a) Will of William Shepheard; Mar. 2, 1663-4 45 

(Jb) Bond of John Hathaway, estate of William Shepheard; June 9, 1665 . 45 

39. Inventory of estate of Richard and Ruth Smith by John Allen, Sen., and Caleb 
Allen; Aug. 13, 1684. Reproduced 46 

40. Inventory of estate of Lieut. James Torrey by James Cudworth, Thomas Kinge, 

John Cushing and Joseph Tilden; Sept. 15, 1665 46 

41. Inventory of estate of Philip Phibens by John Cushing, Jeremiah Hatch and 
Samuel Clap; Nov. 20, 1684 47 

42. Bond of Joseph Whets-tone with William Brooks and Edward Jenkins, sureties, 
estate of John Whiston; Mar. 9, 1665 48 

43. Inventory of estate of Gyles Rickard, Sen., by Lieut. Ephraim Morton and 
Sergt. William Harlow; Feb. 6, 1684 49 

44. Inventory of estate of Richard Willis (fragmentary); in January, 1678 ... 50 

45. Bond of Hosea Joyce and Anthony Thacher, estate of John Joyce; Mar. 6, 1666 50 

46. Inventory of estate of George Barlow by Thomas Tupper and John Blackwell; 

Oct. 24, 1684 51 

47. Deposition of Josiah Torrey regarding Richard Standlick et als.; June 27, 1684 . 52 

48. Inventory of estate of John Joyce by Anthony Thacher, Richard Taylor and 

John Miller; Dec. 18, 1666. Reproduced 52 

49. Bond of Grace and Samuel Smith, estate of Ralph Smith; Nov. 2, 1685 ... 54 



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50. Bond of Elizabeth Shertliffe, widow, and Thomas Lettice, carpenter, estate of 
William Shurtliff; July 3, 1666 54 

51. Bond of Samuel Lathrop, Thomas Snell and Samuel Allen, estate of Mark 
Lathrop; Mar. 4, 1685-6. Reproduced 55 

52. Will of John Barnes; Mar. 6, 1667-8 56 

53. Bond of Sarah Hatch, widow, and Israel Cudworth, estate of Thomas Hatch; 

June 3, 1686 57 

54. Inventory of estate of William Bassett (part); May 12, 1667 57 

55. Inventory of estate of William Bassett (concluded) by William Brett and John 
Willis; May 12, 1667 58 

56. {a) Inventory of estate of Richard Fo.xwell by Henry Cob and Tho: Huckins; 

May 30, 1668 59 

{b) Attachment of estate of Thomas Lassell for Nathaniel Southworth; Sept. 

28, 1689 60 

57. John Bradford's account of expenses in case of Nathaniel Clarke; testimony of 
James Clarke; in 1688-90. Reproduced 61 

58. Inventory of estate of Richard Bullocke by Tho. Cooper, Sen., and Henry Smith; 

Nov. 22, 1667 61 

59. Suit of John WiUiams j;j-. Nathaniel Warren; Sept. II, 1689 62 

60. Inventory of estate of Thomas ... by Thos. Huckijis and William Crocker; 

May 31, 1667 63 

61. Testimony of Nathaniel Winslow, Samuel Little, Nathaniel Winslow, Jr., 
Kenelme Baker and John Rider; Mar. 18-20, 1689-90 64 

62. Deed of Francis Combe to Edward Graye; Dec. 31, 1668 65 

63. {a) Writ of selectmen of Plymouth against Samuel Rider and William Harlow, 

Jr., about a drift whale; Jan. 8, 1689-90 67 

{b) Deposition of Thomas Bucke; Sept. 13, 1690 68 

64. Grandmother Hurst's Debts; June 26, 1688 68 

65. Anthony Collimore's answer to a suit; Mar. 18, 1689-90 69 

66. Deed of Maj. Josias Winslow to William Ford; Feb. 26, 1668 69 

67. Power of attorney of William Harlow, Sen., to Ephraim Morton; Mar. 19, 
1689-90 71 

68. Bond of Hugh Cole and Samuel Bacon, estate of Richard Foxwell; June 17, 1668 72 

69. Bond of Joseph Gannet and Benjamin Pierce, estate of Benjamin Gannet; Mar. 

17, 1690-1 73 

70. Deed of Plymouth town agents to John Gray; Mar. 16, 1691 73 

71. Bond of John Ormsbee and Noah Newman, estate of Jeremiah Martin; June 2, 

1669 7^ 

72. Inventory of estate of Francis Stevens, Sen., by William Carpenter and John 
Ormsby; Apr. i, 1669. Reproduced 76 

73. (a) Deposition of David Jacob; Mar. 21, 1692-3 76 

{b) Deposition of John Vinal; Mar. 14, 1693-4 77 

(f) Deposition of John Haward, Jr.; Dec. 19, 1693 77 

74. Bond of Syseliah Fish, William Bassett and Stephen Skiffe, estate of Robert 
Rollock; Oct. 28, 1669 77 

75. Suit of Benjamin and Samuel Stockbridge vs. Nathaniel Turner; Mar. 30, 1694 78 

76. Bond of John Silvester, estate of Naomi Silvester; May 28, 1669 .... 79 

77. Suit of Nathaniel and Abigail Turner vs. Thomas Stockbridge; Apr. 26, 1694 80 

78. (a) Bond of Michael Peirce and Edward Jenkins, estate of John Woodfeild, 

widow Hester admx.; July 23, 1669 81 

ib) Deposition of Joseph Burge; Oct. 28, 1669 81 

79. Inventory of Robert Rollock's estate by Richard Bourne, Nathaniel Fish, 
Thomas Tobye and John Ellis; Sept. IS, 1669 82 



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80. Suit of John Liech w. Richard Burt; May 31, 1697 83 

81. Inventory of estate of Samuel Sturtevant by Ephralm Tincome, Joseph How- 
land and William Crowe; Oct. 22, 1669 83 

82. (a) Notice by selectmen of Marshfield to John Trasie, Jr.; June 28, 1697 86 
(b) Deposition of Elisha Bradford; no date 86 

83. Inventory of estate of John Robbins; June, 1669 86 

84. Suit of Caleb and Lydia Loring vs. Nathaniel and Dorothy (Gray) Clarke; Nov. 

28, 1698 ..." 87 

85. Inventory of estate of Nathaniel Goodspccd by William Crocker and John Chip- 
man; May 23, 1670 88 

86. Suit of Ebenezer Sprout vs. Robert and Joseph Stetson; Nov. 28, 1698 ... 89 

87. Depositions of Samuel Sprague and Samuel Thomas; June 21, 1698 .... 89 

88. Inventor)' of estate of Garthern Hurst by Ephraim Tincome and William Crowe; 

• May 30, 1670 90 

89. Bond of Jehoshabath Robbins, estate of John Robbins; Mar. 29, 1670 ... 91 

90. Power of attorney of John Gibbs to William Bassett; Dec. 12, 1698. Reproduced 92 

91. Inventory of estate of William Lumkin by John Crowell and John Halle; Jan. 

6, 1670 93 

92. Suit of Benjamin Peterson vs. Adam Wright; Dec. 5, 1698 94 

93. Inventory of estate of Edward Hall by Peter Hunt and Hen: Smith; Mar. 6, 95 
1670-I 

94. (a) Deposition of Joseph Churchill; in March [1707?] 95 

lb) Inventory of estate of William HoUiway by John Dingly, Robert Carver and 

John Russell; not dated 9^ 

95. Bond of Ester Hall, estate of Edward Hall; July 27, 1671 96 

96. Deed of James Howland to John Gray; June 18, 1712 97 

97. Inventory of estate of William Crowe; June 14, 1672 98 

98. Deed of John Gray to Samuel Gray; June 26, 1715 99 

99. (a) Receipt from Harlakinden Symonds, attorney for John Pollard, to George 

Pollard; Dec. 17, 1671 100 

(b) Inventory of estate of Henry Rowly; not dated loi 

IOC. Suit of Joseph Benson vs. Jonathan Hunter, Joseph Edwards and Joseph Saun- 
ders; Aug. 16, 1726 lOI 

101. Inventory of estate of John Barnes by Nathaniel Morton, John Morton, Gyles 
Rickard, Sen., and Samuel Donham; Aug. 30, 1671 102 

102. The same concluded 105 

103. Inventory of estate of Thomas Doten by Ephraim Morton and Will: Harlow; 

Jan. 28, 108 

104. Bond of John Chipman and John Thomson, estate of Thomas Shawe; July 4, 

1672 109 

105. Inventory of estate of Henry Sanderson by Thomas Tupper and Samuel Briggs; 

not dated no 

106. Bond of William Norcutt and Edward Wanton, estate of Ralph Chapman; June 

I, 1672 no 

107. (a) Inventory of estate of Robert Joanes by Edward Bacon, Joell Jenkips, 

Zackary (Eddy) and Thomas Esterbrook; not dated in 

(b) Inventory of estate of Joseph lues by John Chadwick, John Floyd, Zakery 
(Eddy) and Thomas Esterbrook; not dated Ill 

108. Bond of Samuel Wood alias Atvvood, estate of John Wood alias Atwood; Feb. 
13,1673 Ill 

109. Inventory of estate of [John Morton] by Jonathan Dunham, George Vaughan 

and John Nelson, presented by Lettice Mor . . . ; not dated 112 

1 10. Inventory of estate of John Doged by Ephraim Morton and Andrew Ring; May 

28, 1673 113 



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111. Bond of John Taylor and John Gorum, estate of Richard Taylor; Mar. 4, 

1673. Reproduced 114 

112. Bond of Joanna Ammadowne, John Harrud, surety, estate of Roger Ammadowne; 

Mar. 3, 1673 115 

113. Bond of Hannah, Nathaniel and Samuel Bacon, estate of Nathaniel Bacon; 

Nov. I, 1673 lis 

114. Bond of Ephraim Tilson, estate of John Tilson; Oct. 29, 1673 Ii6 

115. Bond of Richard Bowen, estate of Richard Bowen, Sen.; Mar. 3, 1674 . . . 117 

116. Deed of Samuel Wood alias Atwood to Edward Gray; July 6, 1674 .... 117 

117. Inventory of estate of Joseph Ramsden by . . . Hoskins and . . . Shaw; July 

4, 1674 ■ • "9 

118. Inventory of estate of Matthew Macumber by Samuel Williams and John Smith; 

Dec. 27, 1676 120 

1 19. Bond of Desire, James and John Gofham, estate of John Gorham; Mar. 9, 1675. 
Reproduced 120 

120. Bond of John Cann, estate of John Bourne; Feb., 1674 121 

121. Bond of Richard Curtis, estate of John Hollett; June 2, 1675 121 

122. Inventory of estate of John Cole by George Layton and Robert Hodgson; Oct. 

15, 1676 122 

123. Inventory of estate of Judah Thacher by John Miller and Richard Hall; Jan. 

5, 1676-7 123 

124. Bond of Sarah Wood, alias Atwood, estate of John Wood alias Atwood; May 10, 

1676 124 

125. Inventory of estate of James Bell by Thomas Leonard and Nathaniel Williams; 

Mar. 5, 1676-7 124 

126. Bond of Mary Jenkins, estate of Joseph Lewis; June 8, 1677 125 

127. Inventory of estate of Robert Sears by Samuel Newman and Thomas Ormsbee; 

May 24, 1677 126 

128. Bond of Elizabeth Ellis, estate of Lieut. John Ellis; June 7, 1677 127 

129. Will of Michael Peirce; Jan. 15, 1675-6 128 

130. Inventory of estate of John Jenkins by William Newland and Peter Gaunt; not 

dated 129 

131. Nuncupative will of Thomas Dotey; not dated 130 

132. Appointment and bond of Samuel Seabury, estate of John Seabury; Dec. 19, 1678 130 

133. Deed of John Cob to son Ebenezer Cob; May 10, 1693. Reproduced ... 131 



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INTRODUCTION 

THE word Mayflower is the chief expression of the great movement 
of English people to build New England; her voyage across 
the Atlantic, the passengers who came in her crowded cabins 
and made new homes in a strange land, the dates of her touch of the 
land at Provincetown and her slow unlading in the harbor of New Plymouth, 
all these things deserve, as they have, a nation's tender memory and lofty 
praise. The tercentenary of the coming of the "first company" may well 
be one of the most honorable memorializings of the citizens of the Republic 
which has grown into world greatness from that colonial period. 

In passing it should be said that honor should never be withdrawn 
from Jamestown and Virginia's beginnings by the enthusiasm of the 
Plymouth celebration. "The Old Dominion" ought to hold the highest 
place among our states, for it was there that English people made the 
first establishment of home and government, and out of that colony some 
of the grandest elements in our national life have proceeded. But there 
were some features of the Mayflower movement that stood alone in their 
day, that were unique in history, which have claimed singular homage 
from all who love humanity. And it is therefore fitting that our entire 
people should celebrate, in their homes if not at the spot which was hal- 
lowed by the feet of the Pilgrims, that dawning of a magnificent day for 
our race. And the central point of the celebration is the day when the 
Mayflower sailed into the harbor of New Plymouth. 

What is the true date to celebrate.'' This point should be readjusted. 
Custom has fixed upon a day when, common fame has afiirmed, the Pil- 
grims landed on Plymouth Rock; and this day has been determined accord- 
ing to a chronology which the Pilgrims did not use. A decent respect to 
contemporary writers ought to correct that error before any tercentenary 
celebration program is arranged. There is one and only one authority 
to settle the question: William Bradford is the single man and writer 
whose records should be followed; and fiction and poetry ought to have no 
part in the decision. In his History of Plimouth Plantation we find state- 
ments which are final in their nature. 

The signing of the compact which laid the foundation of their 
civil government took place November ii, 1620. No man should dare 
to tamper with that sacred date, written into the body of the document, 
as it is presented on page no of the History. No matter what people in 



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some other countries called that date; no matter what "New Style " 
adopted by Great Britain a hundred and thirty-five years later would 
have called it, the date William Bradford quotes, as written in the death- 
less compact, must stand. If any student of history has ventured to 
write it wrong let him or his successors repent and henceforward quote it 
correctly. Then we turn to page 97 of the History and read, "Being thus 
arrived at Cap-Cod y*^ II. of November, " the company began a series of 
explorations which he describes fully. On page loi he says, "The month 
of November being spente in these affairs, & much foule weather falling 
in, the 6 of Desem'': they sente out their shallop againe with 10. of their 
principall men, & some sea men, upon further discovery, intending to cir- 
culate that deepe bay of Cap-Codd." 

Pursuing his narrative, he tells the adventures of this exploring party 
till they reached an island on the last day of the week and rested there 
the next day and kept "y^ Sabath". "On Munday they sounded y^ 
harbor, and founde it fitt for shipping; and marched into y^ land, & found 
diverse cornfeilds, & little runing brooks, a place (as they supposed) fitt 
for situation; at least it was y^ best they could find and y^ season, & their 
presente necessitie, made them glad to accepte of it. So they returned to 
their shipp againe with this news to y^ rest of their people, which did much 
comforte their harts. On y^ 15. of Desem' : they wayed anchor to goe 
to y^ place they had discovered, & came within 2. leagues of it, but were 
faine to bear up againe; but y^ 16. day y^ winde came faire, and they 
arrived safe in this harbor. And after wards tooke better view of y^ place 
and resolved wher to pitch their dwelling; and y' 25. day begane to erecte 
y^ first house for comone use to receive them and their goods." 

If the phrase "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" is to be used to 
describe a historical event and to be the focus of celebrations, it should 
point to the actual debarkation of official and leading members of that 
company from the Mayflower in the harbor of their future home. Brad- 
ford does not tell how they managed it; who was honored by being car- 
ried in the first boat from ship to shore, or in what order the governor 
and members of the "body politic" went to the land; by all precedents 
John Carver would have been the most highly honored and would nat- 
urally have stepped ashore at the head of the party; certainly no woman 
of the company would have been expected to enter the boat from the 
ship or leap from boat to rock, as Alary Chilton has been fabulously 
pictured as doing. But there was a landing that day; an examination by 
those who had authority of the site that the explorers in the shallop pro- 
posed for a new home; a decision to adopt the place and make it com- 
fortable for all. The date of that arrival and landing was December 16, 1620. 

Let that day be the one for all coming generations to celebrate, 
not some date which harebrained romancers may choose by calculating 
what Holland would have called the day, or some date that fits some 



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dreamer's dream of the events. Bradford tells us (page no) that they 
" provided a place for their goods, or commone store, (which were long in 
unlading for want of boats, foulness of winter weather, and sickness of 
diverce,) and begune some small cottages for their habitation, as time 
would admitte, " — all of which shows that there was no ceremonious 
"landing" of the entire company at any time. But there had to be an 
official landing the day they arrived and chose the place for their colony, 
and that alone can be fixed and that alone can be celebrated. 

By all means we should retain in our writings and celebrations the 
system of dating the Pilgrims used. It is an outrage upon history to 
alter the dates those venerable persons wrote. Let all who honor their 
memory join in a league to perpetuate truth and abjure fancies. 

While, for the reasons mentioned, the landing of the Mayilower party 
December 16, 1620, is the focal point of the tercentenary celebration and 
future anniversary memorials, there are many other persons and matters 
also worthy of our honor and requiring particular mention. First of all, 
Reverend John Robinson and the members of the Leyden church who did 
not come over in the Mayflower deserve the same praise and respect as 
those who did. Equally with the "first company" were those who were 
delayed by causes beyond their control. Some came in the Ann and the 
Fortune; some came in the ships "Talbut and May-flower" [Brad. pp. 296-7] 
still later; thirty-five in May, 1629, and others in 1630 by the way of 
Salem. Some never reached these shores, but, like the noble pastor, wrote 
words of power and love and sent practical tokens of partnership to the 
colony. All these were the members of the church which began its cor- 
porate life at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, continued its course in Scrooby, 
Nottingham, went in exile to Amsterdam and then to Leyden, Holland, 
whence they came to our shores, a formal chtirch colony. But men and 
women and children joined with them who were natives of other counties 
of England and members of other churches, not all "of like faith and 
practise." They came for a number of years, taking the places of that 
half of the Mayflower company who died within six months after arriving, 
and adding to the population of the colony. Children born here of those 
pioneer parents, too, deserve recognition and honor, io: they entered 
heartily into the spirit and work of their elders, and made the paternal 
ideas reach practical success. 

One more topic deserves some words in this introduction, the term 
by which this people shall be described. All writers upon the Mayflower 
party and their associates designate them as Pilgrims, since they were 
obviously persons journeying from a religious motive, having the idea of 
God as their central thought and his pleasure their chief motive, a 
Church colony conspicuously. But there have been many writers who 
have stopped there and placed this people on a pedestal apart from the 
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The writer must protest against such canonization, for, in the first 
place, there were other church colonies, inspired by the same motives, 
who came hither: Dorchester, recruited in Devon and Dorset, led in 
their beginnings by a clergyman of the English church, Reverend John 
White, but organized with his approval into a separate church with Rev- 
erends John A-laverick and John Warham, ministers, as they said fare- 
well to England; Scituate, in fellowship of worship and persecution in 
London as early as 1592 and represented here in process of time by pastor 
Reverend John Lothrop and many of the members, although they did not 
come in a "church capacity"; Rowley, definitely organized in their York- 
shire home, and as definitely migrating with their pastor, Reverend 
Ezekiel Rogers. Beside these groups that openly organized and stood for all 
that the Plymouth company maintained in religious and civil matters, 
there were hundreds of individuals scattered through the colony of Massa- 
chusetts Bay who were just as devoted to the cause of primitive Chris- 
tianity as those of Plymouth; and all the churches of the Bay Colony 
were organized on the Plymouth model. Let it be said that the business 
element entered into the life of all colonists necessarily; that faith and 
works went hand in hand; and that the settlers at Salem, Charlestown, 
Boston, et als., made their governmental and civil systems on more ordi- 
nary scale than Plymouth. But each made the laws of Moses the corner- 
stone of their structure; each aimed at entire loyalty to England and each 
regarded the other colony as an equal and ally. 

In view of these facts the writer protests stoutly against the common 
manner of describing the one colony as "Puritan" and the other as "Pil- 
grim." That habit arose from stark ignorance of the facts just adduced. 
First of all was lack of understanding of what the word "Puritan" signi- 
fied. This term was employed by English writers half a century or more 
before the Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic to designate persons who 
were reading the Bible for themselves and following the simple teachings 
of that book, even when such a course of conduct was antagonistic to the 
rules of the established church. Governor Bradford, in his History, refers 
to the term as one which he did not like but which was applied to such 
as he and his associates: 

"And to cast contempte the more upon y*^ sincere servants of God, 
they opprobriously & most injuriously gave unto, & imposed upon them 
that name of Puritans, which (it) is said the Novatians out of pride did 
assume & take unto themselves." 



HISTORICAL 

THE Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod harbor "y^ ii. of November," 
where the men of the company signed the immortal compact, — 
"y'^ first foundation of their governmente in this place"; a party 
of sixteen volunteers under the lead of Captain Standish made an 
exploration of the Cape for some distance the fifteenth and sixteenth of 
November; their little shallop made a short voyage with thirty men and went 
back to their anchorage. "The month of November being spente in these 
affairs, & much foule weather falling in, the 6 of Desem"": they sente out their 
shallop againe with lo. of their principall men, & some sea men, upon further 
discovery, intending to circulate that deepe bay of Cap-Codd." After hard 
days and nights, amid storms and with no capable piloting, " they gott under 
y^ lee of a smalle iland, and remained ther all night in saftie" . . . "God gave 
them a morning of comforte & refreshing (as usually He doth to his children) 
for y^ next day was a faire sunshining day, and they found them sellvs to be 
on an iland secure from y^ Indeans, wher they might drie their stufe, fixe their 
peaces, & rest them selves, and gave God thanks for his mercies, in their mani- 
fould deliverances. And this being the last day of the weeke, they prepared 
ther to keepe y^ Sabath. On Munday they sounded y^ harbor, and founde it 
fit for shipping; and marched into y^ land, & found diverse cornfeilds, & litle 
running brooks, a place (as they supposed) fitt for situation." This was 
December ii, 1620. "On y^ 15. of Desem"^: they wayed anchor to goe to y^ place 
they had discovered, & came within 2 leagues of it, but were faine to beare up 
againe; but y^ 16 day y^ winde came faire, and they arrived safe in this har- 
bor. And after wards tooke better view of y^ place, and resolved wher to 
pitch their dwelling; and y*^ 25. day begane to erecte y^ first house for comone 
use to receive them and their goods." 

So wrote Governor William Bradford, historian of the Plymouth Colony, 
in the precious volume which is reprinted by our Commonwealth and placed 
within reach of all. 

Tradition, elevated by some writers into the semblance of history, has 
fixed on a day and place for "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers"; but 
Bradford's record shows the entire error of that tradition. We see that there 
were several "landings"; that at "Cape Codd harbour," — Provincetown, 
the first, worthy of all the honor which has been paid to it; that at Clark's 
Island in Plymouth harbor, where Saturday and Sunday were spent; that 
on the beach and shores of Plymouth itself by the exploring party who decided 
to report it to the company as a "fitt place"; that on December 16, when the 
" Mayflower " actually reached Plymouth harbor and some of its passengers went 

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ashore and "tooke a better view of y' place, and resolved wher to pitch their 
dwelling." Afterward there must have been many "landings" as workmen 
went on shore and dug and cut and framed and built their one common house. 
As to any general landing, the company, men, women and children, carried 
in all the boats and stepping ashore in order of social and civil rank, no account 
of it has come down nor any reason to suppose it occurred. But if any day 
is to be observed as "Mayflower Day," or the real date of the beginning of 
Plymouth town and colony, the writer would respectfully suggest that it be 
December i6, the day, — by the calendar then in use in England and her 
colonies, — commemorating the arrival of the Mayflower in Plymouth har- 
bor with her full company. And if our fancy would venture to elevate a 
name as the first of that ever honorable band to set foot on the "rock" that 
day, let us imagine that it was the governor, John Carver. 

But we are concerned at this writing with the matter of records of Plym- 
outh people. Bradford's History and those of Winslow and Morton are of 
value, but the formal annals of town and colony have great importance. 
Nothing like colonial or town records are extant for many years. One paper 
tells U6 about land divisions made in 1621; another names those who had 
shares in certain cattle that had been brought over. But it is not till 1632 
that orderly records were made, so far as we know. The state of Massa- 
chusetts published The Records oj Plymouth Colony in 1855. Probably 
there were many documents in the keeping of Secretary Morton and his 
successors, but gradually they wore out or were captured by conscienceless 
persons; till, at last, some recorder of deeds gathered what remained in the 
county offices and pasted them into a blank book, giving it the label "The 
Scrap Book." This is the collection which is herewith presented to the 
people of America, — "lest we forget." It contains wills, deeds, depositions, 
writs, letters, bonds and inventories. The documents are full of tokens of 
the common life of the people. The reader gets the material from which 
histories may be written, — material not perfectly explored by some who 
have undertaken to write histories. The reproduced documents are peculiarly 
informing and quickening to students. And though these papers are not 
largely the work of Mayflower passengers, they show the ideas and practices 
of that company faithfully, being the memorials of the very families who came 
to found Plymouth and New England. 

Readers must observe a few points in the study of these documents: 
I . Note the dates ; by the calendar then in use in England and her colonies, 
the year began March 25th ; March was therefore called the first month, although 
twenty-four days of it were in the old year. The Latin names which we retain 
in common parlance, September, October, November and December, meaning 
the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months, had their proper meaning; and 
January and February were later in the year than July or December. In 
1752 England abandoned this calendar and dropped eleven days, so adopting 
"New Style," which Holland and some other countries had used before the 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 7 

Mayflower sailed; some illogical and short-sighted persons at once set about 
reforming the records of their own and their sires' lives; even changing their 
birthdays and dates of great events. But let no honest man tamper with 
records made by intelligent, official personages. What Bradford wrote ought 
to be sacred. He tells us what he and his contemporaries did and recorded; 
shame on a man who would give the lie to the records made by such a man. 
In this tercentenary period especially let us recall and repeat the very dates 
our grand ancestors and forerunners wrote. 

2. Note the spelling; educated as well as slightly instructed writers 
varied in their spelling; sometimes father and sons differed in the orthography 
of their surname. But common words had amusing variety, as scilke, Scilite, 
andlren, bibel; many were changing at home and naturally in the colonies. 

3. Note the phraseology of the documents, many expressions borrowed 
from feudal times, very cumbrous and stilted, the boundaries pointing to 
trees and heaps of stones or giving a mere general region. 

4. Note the proper description of the people to whose life these documents 
relate. They were part of the Mayflower company and also children and 
successors of that party. Because they came as religious persons, taking a 
voyage for a holy purpose, they are fitly termed Pilgrims. This word, however, 
applies equally well to the church colony that gathered in the counties of Dorset 
and Somerset and Devon, England, In 1629, and sailing from Plymouth arrived 
at Dorchester May 30, 1630; and to the church colony of Rowley, Yorkshire, 
and Rowley, Massachusetts, who came seven years later. We can go further 
and say that the people of Plymouth (the majority of them) were Puritans, 
a class of Christians in England who aimed at serving God as the Bible taught, 
even when that led them to differ from their neighbors or those who claimed 
rule over them. Part of the Puritans remained in the established church, 
simply lifting the standards of life through the ancient methods; part came out 
so strongly that they were prosecuted by the clergy and became completely 
separated from the Episcopal organization. Those who came to our country 
in the three church colonies I have named were only a small part of the "Sepa- 
rated churches." Multitudes of the members of those congregations came 
to Boston and Salem and Ipswich and other ports in New England, and from 
the same motives; so that the words "Puritan" and "Pilgrim" were equally appli- 
cable to many. The writer must insist that there is no propriety in taking 
one of these words for the Plymouth Colony and the other for that of Massa- 
chusetts Bay; historical accuracy demands that we term both Puritan Pil- 
grims. Whatever service they did for God and humanity was due to their 
Piiritan consecration and Pilgrim adventure. They merit the description of 
Macaulay in his Essay on Milton: 

"The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character 
from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not 
content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, 
they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose 



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power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. 
To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of 
existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other 
sects substituted for the pure worship of the souL Instead of catching occa- 
sional gHmpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze 
full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. 
Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference 
between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when com- 
pared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him 
on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. They recognized no title to 
superiority but his favor; and confident of that favor, they despised all the 
accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. . . . On the rich and 
the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for 
they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure and eloquent in a 
more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation and priests 
by the imposition of a mightier hand. . . . The Puritans brought to civil 
and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose 
which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but 
which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it." 




^733^ 




INVEiXTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM PALMER 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM PALMER 

The Inventory of Willia Palmer the younger of all such goods and Chat- 
tells as he was possest of When he dyed. Taken the 25'^'' of August 1636: 
By m'': Willia Brewster m"": Thomas Prence, and Edmund Chandelor. 

/. s. d. 

Imp'^s: one fether bedd, one boulster and three Pilloes 03-10- o 

It. I. Redd Blankett 00-06- o 

It. 3. Remnants of Clothe 01-03- ^ 

It. I. Clothe Suite and Clook 02-10- o 

It. I. paier drawers 00-10- o 

It. 2. Hatts 00-15- o 

It. 2. paier of graie breeches. & i wascoate 00-09- ° 

It. 3. paier of stockings. & I paier shooes 00-06- o 

It. 3. bands. &. i. pr. of silke garters 00-05- o 

It. 2. blanketts, Cotes, sleises, for a childe 01-00- o 

It. divers old Clothes, i. line. &. I. Bedd Corde 00-04- ° 

It. 2. bibles, & other small bookes 00-06- 8 

It. I. sworde. &. bandelers 00-06- o 

It. Shott, & powder 00-08- o 

It. I. great Cheest 00-10- o 

It. I. Iron pott, pott hockes, & frying pann 00-10- o 

It. 2. platters, i. dripping pan, & other small things 00-06- o 

It. I. chaire, table, & forme 00-05- o 

It. I. spade. &. I. pr. of tonges 00-01- 6 

It. 2. Rundletts, & 2. howes 00-03- ^ 

It. I. littell chaire 00-00- 6 

It. I. salt barrell. & a littcU salte 00-01- o 

It. I. Iron pott, &. 2. brasse kettells. I. skellett 01-05- o 

It. 2. platters, 6. porringers, i. Iron pott, & 6. spoones 00-09- o 

It. 3. pr. of sheetes 02-00- o 

It. 2. pr. of pillowbers 00-16- o 

It. 3. bands 00-01- 6 

It. I. table clothe, & 10 napkines, & towells 00-06- 8 

It. 6. Shertles, & i wascote 00-18- o 

It. 13. handkerchers, & 3 Capps ... 00-08- o 

It. I. blankett 00-10- o 

It. I. Compasse dyall 00-02- o 

It. 4. swine 05-10- o 

It. I. Cowe 24-00- o 

50-01-11 
Coorne standing estimated 40 bushells 
Owing unto him, for a wolfe, 5. bushells Coorne. 

Debts that he owed to Willia Paddie & Edmund House 07-01-08 

It. to Christopher Wadsworth 01-00-09 

It. for the Taylors 01-05-00 

[The bottom of the sheet, containing the signatures of the appraisers, has 
been torn off.] 

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BOND OF MRS. MARGARET HICKS 

Know all men by these p''sents th' we Margaret hicks of the Colonie 
of new Plyni: in New England in america widdow and Tho: Willet of the same 
place merchant; doe acknowlidg our selves bound & fermly obliged unto the 
Govc"^ & Courte of New Plym: aforesaid in the sum of two hundred pound 
sterling to the payment of w*^ well & treuly to bee made wee bind our selves 
& every of us joyntly & severally our heaircs Executors adminestrators & 
assignes by these presents fermly: 
Sealed & given the eleventh of March 1649) 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas the 
above bounden M'''^ Margaret hicks hath obtained Ltres of adminestration 
uppon all the goods and lands & Chattels which were either in possession or 
any way appertaining unto Ephraim hicks late desseasd if therefore the said 
M"^ Margaret hicks shall give a just & treue accompt uppon Oath y*^ shee 
hath payed all such debts (as fare and by equall proportion as the estate will 
amounte unto) w*^ were owing by the said Ephraim hicks at the time of his 
death when it shall be Required by the Courte of new Plym: aforesaid th' 
then this obligation bee void & of none effect or els to Remayne in full force 

Margaret hickes (Seal) 

Sealed and delivered Tho Willett (Seal) 

in the p''sence of 
Nathaneel Morton 
Georg Watson 

LETTER OF CAPT. JOHN SANFORD 

These are to Certefy whome it doth or may Concerne, that about 
the nineteenth day of the month of January in the yeare 1676 there was a 
Note brought to mee Signed Christopher Almy and Alarj' Almy; wherein 
I was desired by said Christopher and Alary Almy to come the next day to 
the house of the late deceased John Almy in the town of Portsmouth on Rhode 
Island; then in possession of the said Mary (widow and Relict to the said 
John Almy) to draw up in wrightinge the voUentory and mutual agreement, 
made by and betwixt Christopher Almy and Mary Almj' aforesaid, when 
accordingly I did goe to the said house, where was present the said Mary 
Almys brother Hugh Cole . . . was Asisting in his business; and it was mutu- 
ally agreed upon between the said Christopher Almy and Alary Almy for the 
prevention of all trouble and sutes of law between them Concerninge housing 
and lands that formerly did belong to the said John Almy deceased: That the 
said Mary Almy should deliver and surrender all the lands that hir deceased 
husband John Almy died seized of in new plymouth pattent or the Jurisdiction 
thereof; to Christopher Almy only one third part thereof was to have dureing 
hir natural life, and the said Christopher Almy thereupon surrendered all 



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BOND OF MRS. MARGARET HICKS 



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his Right in and to the personal estate that formerly belonged to his deceased 

brother John Almy in the said Collony of New plymouth. And to this efect 

there was a writinge drawne up by mee with both their consents and severall 

times Read and perused, and the said Cristopher Almy and Mary Almy signed 

the same and delivered it in the presence of the aforesaid Hugh Cole, and 

the subscriber hereof John Sanford as their mutual act, and Deede, and 

when one was drawne . . . considered necessary that they should have 

each of them one, and soe they ... if there was noe mistake in the meaninge, 

but where it is Aledged, that there is a mistake in the date, if soe bee: I 

seariously owne it was my Mistake, in Transcribinge, and not theirs. Neither 

am I truly sinceable there is any. And further I doe afirme, that before 

the said writings were drawne I heard the said Christopher Almy proffer 

the said widow Mary Almy that if she would surrender up to him the 

whole estate, her deceased husband died seassed off, he would allow and 

pay her one hundred pounds and pay all his said Brothers debts and 

would alsoe allow her all her wearing aparrill, and other household things. 

This above-written by mee drawne, I doe very well Remember and 

doe on my solemne Engagement Atest, the same to be the truth. Witnes 

my hand 2S^^ June, 1679. y, c . j \ ■ ^ ^ 

^ J ' /^ John baniord Asistant. 

Newport The 28*^^ day June 79: 

Personally Apeared before me Capt John Sanford 

Asistant And upon oath owned the above Written 

to be the Truth: 

As Atest Jo": Cranston Governor 

of his Majesties Collony of 
Rhode Island & providence 
plantation. 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN BARKER 

A true and Just Inventory of the Estate Chattels and goods of 
John Barker of Marshfeild deseased being priced by Kenelme Winslow 
Joseph Beedle Edmund (Himshaw) & John Bourne, of y'^ same towne. 
taken the 17 of December 1652. / j. ^ 

Imprimis one Cassocke & brceclies of Cloth 01-05-00 

Item the wearing apparcll that He dyed in 00-05-00 

more 3 handkerchers a cap and a band 

more i pouder Home and a small diall 00-01-06 

more a musket sword and belt & bandelers 01-04-00 

more a feather bed and boulster, 4 pillowes and 2 Coverlids 03-00-00 

more a straw bed and blanket 00-04-00 

more 3 chests a box and a cradle 00-10-00 

more 2 Iron pots and one Iron kettle & a pot hocke & hanger 01-08-00 

more 3 brasse kettles and la skellett 00-16-00 

more 2 pewter dishes 2 pint pots a little bason and poringer and 3 spooncs 00-05-00 



12 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

more 8 traycs 6 trenchers 2 dishes a little payle 00-09-00 

more 5 tubs and a hogshead 00-06-00 

more 2 olde bibles and other books 00-03-00 

more an old sithe and an old Hatchet 2 axes 2 wedges and a smoothing Iron 

and old Iron things 00-12-00 

more a looking glasse 00-02-00 

more a thwart saw 00-03-00 

more a yard and quarter of Cotton Cloth 00-06-00 

more a Cart & wheeles and a plough and share, 2 chaines and a yoke . 01-08-00 

more 5 bush: of Indian Corne 00-15-00 

more a Spinning wheele 01-06-06 

more Hempe and Hempseed 00-13-00 

more 8 load of Hay 02-00-00 

wee do Judge the wheat and barly in the straw y' is ontrashed in y" 

barne at the price 07-00-00 

more one yoke of oxen at 13-10-00 

more 2 Cowes 09-00-00 

more i cow 2 Heifers, one stear at 4'' a Head 16-00-00 

more one of year & vantage a heifer 02-05-00 

more two Calves 02-00-00 

more two Swine 11-04-00 

more one Cow - 04-10-00 

more for the table and forme 00-01-06 

more wee do prise all His lands and mcadowes Houses and all appurte- 
nances thereunto 60-00-00 

more for Husselments belonging to His estate in view 00-01-06 

more too paier of sheits and on how 

[The remainder of the inventory is missing.] 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN EWER 

The goods of John ewer deseased and imprised by William croker 

and John Smith both inhabitants of the towne of bastable one site of 

stufe vd'. /. .f. (/. 

It one suite of stufe -20- o 

It one cloke -20- o 

It one cotton ruge -20- o 

It 3 sheetes -20- O 

It platter and 2 spoones -2-2 

It on chest -2-0 

It on swine -10- o 

It 2 cowes and a calfe 9-00- o 

It one iron skellett o-oi- 6 

It Debts owinge 3-1 1- 6 

1 7-07-02 
May 31 - 1652 

[Marked on the back] "John Hewers Inventory". 



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BILL OF SALE OF INTEREST IN A MILL 

Know all men by these p''sents that Josias Winslow Junior of 
Marshfeilde in New Plymoth doth sell unto William fforde Senior of y^ 
same place, his whoU right and interest in y^ mill by them joyntly built; 
and now standing on y'' south river; with all y*= lands, roads, waters, 
stones, timber and all other apurtenances to y^ s'^ mill apertayning & 
belonging to have and to houlde, to him and his heirs forever; ffor the 
sum of seventy two pounds and ten shillings; to bee payed in manner 
and fforme as foUoweth; That is to say in five years beginning from y^ 
twelfth day of this instant, at fourteen pounds ten shillings p"". yeare; 
to bee payed quarterly; athird in merchantable wheat at foure shillings 
three pence p' bushell, athird in ry at three shillings six pence, and athird 
in Indian at three shillings; all which is to bee well and trewly payed 
to the s*^ Josias or his assignes at y^ before mentioned mill. And y^ 
partyes above s'^ doe hearby binde themselves their heirs executors & 
assignes further to confirme this their contract and bargayne each to 
other both for payments and assurances in such wise as according to 
law they may require: for y^ trew and Just p''formance whereof on both 
sides y^ partyes above mentioned have hearunto sett their hands this 
third day of Aprill in y^ year of our Lord 1657. 

Jos: Winslow 

In y^ p''sence of 

us 
John Bourne william fToord 

James Winslow 

BOND OF RICHARD THAYER AND INCREASE ROBINSON 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Richard Thayre of the 
towne of Braintry in the Jurisdiction of the A-Iassachusetts yeoman and 
Increase Robinson of the towne of Taunton in the Jurisdiction of Plym- 
outh in New England in America yeoman; doe acknowlidge ourselves 
heerby to be bound and firmly oblidged unto the Gov"" and Court of 
Plymouth aforesaid in the penall sum of two hundred pounds sterling 
for the payment whereof well and truely to be made wee bind our selves 
our heires executors and adminestrators Joyntly and severally firmly 
sealed and Given this twenty ninth day of October, one thousand six 
hundred seventy and nine; 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that whereas 
the abovebounden Richard Thayer and Increase Robinson have obtained 
Letters of Adminestration on the estate of Air. John Paine late of Boston 
in the Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Gent: deseased; viz.: such pte 
of his estate as hee hath in the Iron workes of Taunton or other estate 



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. . this Government if therefore the said Richard Thayer and Increase 
Robinson shall and doe keep a due accompt of theire Adminestration 
and be in a Reddynes to give in a trevv accompt thereof unto the Gov'' 
and Court of Plymouth aforesaid; and save and keep harmless and un- 
damnified the said Governor and Court from time to lime and alt all 
times from any damage that may acrew unto them or any of them by 
the said Richard Thayer or Increase Robinson theire said Adminestration 
that then the above written obligation to be void and of none effect, or 
other to Remaine in full force strength or vertue. 



Signed sealed and delivered 
in the p''sence of 
Joseph Donham 

the marke of 
Jonathan x Pratt: 



Richard Thayer (Seal) 

Increase Robinson (Seal) 



BOND OF JOB HAWKINGS 

Be it known unto all men by these p'"sents that I Job Hawkings 
of Boston in the Countie of Suffolke in New England carpenter doe 
accnolidg myselfe to owe and to be indepted unto the Gov^'ment of Plym- 
outh patient in New England the full and whole some of one hundred 
pounds sterling to be paid unto the said gov''ment or their assignes for 
the w'^^ payment I the said Job doe bynd my selfe my heires execut"'* 
& Administrators firmly by these p'"sents In witnesse whereof I have here 
unto sett my hand and scale this Eight day of March less 

The Condition of this obligation is such that if the abovenamcd 
Job Hawkings. his heires execut''^ and Administrators shall and doe at all 
times and at any time or occasion shall rcquier, save and keep harmeless 
the gov''ment of Plymouth aforesaid: of and from all damages w'^^ may at 
any time heareafter come one them or any of them or their survivors 
by reason of an order from them to take possession & make sale of the 
Lands of William Holmes deceased And alsoe if the said Job doe make 
surrender of the said Lands unto any one that shall heareafter come and 
make out a clearer title as heire unto the s'^ Lands of the s'' William 
Holmes desessed: Lying and being w'^in Plymouth pattent afors'* that 
then this p''sent obligation shalbe voyde and of none effect otherwise to 
remaine and be in full power and virtue/ 



Signed sealed and 
delivered in the p''sence of 

Thomas littell 
W' illiam Pearse 



marke of 

Job: X Hawkings (Seal) 



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BOND OF RICHARD CURTIS 

... all men by these ... I Richard ... of Towne of Scittuate in 
the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in . . . erica: yeoman doe 
acknowledge myselfe heerby to Stand bound unto the Gov'', and Court 
of the Jurisdiction of Plymouth aforesaid in the penall sume of two hun- 
dred pounds sterling for the true and Reall payment of the said sume: I 
doe hereby bind mee my heirs execut""^ and Administrators feirmly by these 
p''sents Sealed and Given this fourth day of March -gj, 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above bounden Richard Curtice hath obtained of the Court above 
named Letters of Adminestration to Adminester on the estate of John 
Curtice of Scituate aforesaid Late deceased; if therefore the said Richard 
Curtice; shall and doe pay all such debts and legacys as are due and owing 
from the said estate and keep a faire accompt of his said adminestration 
and be Reddy to Give in the said accompt unto the said Court when by 
them Required; and otherwise to save and keep harmless the said Gov"", 
and Court from any damage that may acrew to them or any of them by 
his said Adminestration That then the above written obligation to be 
void and of none effect, or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue. 

Signed sealled and Richard Curtis (Seal) 

delivered in the p''sence 

of 

John Titus 

John Sutton 



INVENTORY OF SARA PERY 

An Inventory of the goods of Sara Pery of Sandwich lately deceassed 
taken and prissed this 8 of June 1659 by them whose names are under 

written. 

/. s. d. 

Imprimise five Cowes at 17-00- o 

It on 2 yeare old steere 02-05- o 

It two yeare old Calves 03-00- o 

It 12 yards of sarge 03-00- o 

It on chest with some Cotton wooll & divers other smalle thinges . . . 02-00- o 

the wholle some 27-05- o 



Edward Dillingham 
Henry Dillingham 
Thomas Burge 



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DEED OF EDWARD GRAY TO THOMAS BURDEN (PURDANE) 

This Indenture made the Twenty seventh day of October one 
thousand six hundred and eighty; Between Edward Graye of the Towne 
of Newplymouth in the Colony of Newplymouth in New england Yeoman 
on the one party; And Thomas Burden of the said Colony on the other 
party 

Wittnesseth that the said Edw-ard Graye for and in Consideration 
of the Some of Forty one pounds payed unto him bj' the said Thomas 
Burden as followeth viz Twenty pound silver money before the ensealing 
hereof; whereof the said Edward Graye Doth acknowl himselfe to have 
received of the said Thomas Burden before the sealing and delivery of 
these Indentures of which Twenty pounds the said Edward Graye doth 
freely Acquit and Discharge the said Thomas Burden his heires Executors 
and Administrators and every of them for ever by these Presents; and 
Twenty one pounds in Corant New England silver money to be pa}-d 
unto him the said Edward Graye his Heires Executors Administrators or 
Assignes at his dwelling house in the aforesaid Towne of Newplymouth 
at or before the Last Tuesday in October next Come a Twelve month 
which will be in the yeare one thousand six hundred eighty two; By the 
said Thomas Burden his heires Executors Administrators or Assignes; 
Hath Bargained and sold; Alinated Enfeolled and Confeirmed And by 
these presents doth bargaine sell Alinate; Enfeofe; and Confeirme from 
him the said Edward Graye and his heires unto the said Thomas Burden 
his heires and Assignes for ever; All that his one share or portion of Land 
that he hath in a Certaine Tract of Land Lying uppon Taunton River 
in the Colony aforesaid Called by the name of Wickepinsett or Shonam- 
mett as it was Bought and Purchased from the Colony Aforesaid by 
thirty Persons; who took there deeds of the Colony for the said Land; 
Which said one Share is the thirty one part, divided or undivided of the 
Aforesaid Tract of Land; And the ninth Lott or Lotts; Share or Shares; 
which is alredy; La)'d out is a part thereof with all and Singular the 
Appurtenances and Priviledges therunto belonging and al his right title 
and interest of and in to the said Premises and every part and parcell 
therof for ever TO HAVE AND TO HOLD; All the aforesaid one share 
or who]e share with the Appurtenances and Priviledges, Right Title and 
Interest unto the said Thomas Burden his heires and Assignes for ever 
And the said Edward Graye for himselfe his heires Executors and Ad- 
ministrators doth Covenant and Promise to and with the said Thomas 
Burden his heires Executors administrators or Assignes by these presents 
that upon the honnest and true paying of the Aforesaid twenty one pounds 
by the said Thomas Burden his heires Executors or Assignes According 
to the Aforesaid mentioned Speatie and time of payment as before specifide 
That then he or they shall and will act and Doe; all such thinge or things 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



17 



devise or Devised in the Law which shall bee reasonably required by the 
said Thomas Burden his heires or Assignes or by their Counsell Learned 
in the Lawe of and for their more better Assurance sure making and 
Convaying of the Afforesaid Bargained Premises therunto belonging sold 
unto the said Thomas Burden his heires and Assignes for ever; Be it by 
Deed or other Legall Confirmation; only at the Charge of the said Thomas 
Burden his heires and Assignes; And the said Thomas Burden doth Cove- 
nant and Promise for himselfe his Heires, Executors and Administrators 
and Every of them To and with the said Edward Graye his heires Exec- 
utors and Administrators and every of them; that hee the said Thomas 
his Executors nor Administrators shall or will make salle or dispose any 
manner of way of any of the Above mentioned Bargained Premises; till 
such time as the aforesaid twenty one Pound is payd as Abovesaid; And 
that in case he the said Thomas nor any by or under him shall not pay 
the Aforesaid Twenty one Pounds According to the Aforesaid; Spatie 
and Place as Aforementioned That then it shall and may be Lawfull 
for the Aforesaid Edward Graye his heires Executors Administrators and 
Assignes or any of them for to enter uppon; Possession for to take and 
make sale of all the aforementioned Bargained premises, And this Inden- 
ture to be voide and of none effect; Provided the said Edward Graye his 
Executors; Administrators or Assignes Return Backe and pay into the 
said Thomas Burden his heires Executors or administrators the Aforesaid 
Twenty pounds which the said Edward hath now received of the said 
Thomas; In witnesse whereof the Aforesaid parties to these present Inden- 
tures Interchangeably have set ther hands and scales the day and yeare 
first above written. 



Signed Sealed in presence 
of John Thacher 
Wm Crowe 



Edward Graye 
his Marke 



(Seal) 



[On the back of the deed.] 

These Witnesseth that William Slade of Newport on Rhode Island 
Assignee to Thomas Purdane within named hath on the twelth day 
of October 1682 fully satisfied & paid to us Dorothy Gray Adminis- 
tratrix of the estate uf Edward gray within named & to John Gray 
eldest son of the s'^ Edward the within mentioned sum of twenty one 
pounds in money as witness our hands, 

In p''sence of us 

Nathaniel Thomas John Gray 



Samuell Sprague 



Dorothy Gray 



i8 THE PLYAIOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

BOND OF JOHN KINGSLY 

KNOW all men by these p''sents that whereas I John Kingsley 
of Rehoboth hath entered disorderly as from our Jurisdiction of new 
Plymouth upon adminestration on the estate of Samuel Jones deceased 
That I the said John Kingsley doe acknowlidge my selfe bound and 
feirmly obliged unto the Gov"" and Court of New Plymouth in the sume 
of one hundred pounds for the payment whereof well and trewly to bee 
made I bind myself my heires executors and administrators firmly by these 
p''sents sealed and given this ninth day of October Ann°: Dom: 1662 

The Condition of the abovesaid obligation is such that if the said 
John Kingsley hee his heires executors and Adminestrators shall and doe 
from time to time and at all times save harmless and undamnified the 
said Gov'' and Court of Plymouth from any damage that may arise . . . 
said estate or that may arise by the said John Kingsley his Adminestration 
upon the same; that then this obligation to bee void and of none efect or 
otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue; 

Signed Sealed 

and delivered in the 

p''sence of ' John Kingsly (Seal) 

John Bradford 

John Morton 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM SHERNL\N 

An Inventory of all and Singuler the goods and chatties of William 
Sherman late of Marshfield deceased: apprized; the 30''': of Decemb"": 
1680 p us who have under Subscribed. 

Imp'': /• s. d. 

his wearing Apparcll 06-00-00 

his purse or cash 21-12-01 

2 guns one Sword and ammunition 02-00-00 

an old horse Saddle pillion and other ffurniture 02-12-00 

2 Cowes: at 45 shillings p*^ Cowe and — Calves: 10 s p' Calfc .... 07-15-00 

ten Sheep and Lambs : at 45 shillings 05-05-00 

Seven Small Swine 02-03-00 

two Chists : two boxes and i deske 00-18-06 

Cotton & Sheeps Wool flax teer tow and yarne 01-18-06 

divers small remnants of cloth 00-16-00 

An old feather bead; 3 paire of Sheets & other beading 04-15-00 

Brasse pewter and earthen ware or vessels 02-09-00 

A Looking glasse and glasse bottles 00-03-00 

A Cradle and a small table 00-12-00 

A meal Cieve wooden dishes Spooncs and trenchers 00-05-00 

2 old baggs : small baskets and white starch 00-06-00 

3 Iron pots; tongs: poihangers frying pan & other Iron 00-01-00 



I 



y 



/If..... .//.:/<■ / .... , 






-<;; r'^"''.v^ 7^5-^^'y"'-"-'"^--'-»'/*^- 
-^ '<" ,i, , ' y r ^ y't«j -Mvm' i,i;^^j _-j ix5yw,.^t,iT 










BOND OF JOHN HAMMOND 



THE PLY M OUTH SCRAP BOOK 



19 



Imp": 

divers working tools 

Seven Barrels of Cider 

two Spinning Wheeles 

Chaires : pailes old Cask and household lumber 

A small perccll of Coopers stuff 

his Bootes prized at 

A Cider presse 

about 8 bushels of Indian Corne & i bushell of Ry 

poark Bieff and hoggs ffatt 

Butter and Cheese 

Sugar ifruit and Spice: 6s: and tobacker: 8d.. 
Hay and ffodder 

Debts due to the Estate from severall persons: some whereof are desper- 

ett debts 

The Estate is Indebted about 

Ephraim Little 
Samuel Sprague 
Debts due to the estate of William Sherman deceased: 

Phillip Leonard is Debtor 

John Peeterson 

John Trowbridge 

Samuell Hatch 

Isaac Little 

Edward Steevens 

Walter Joyce 

Samuell Sherman 

John Phillips 

John Doten 



A desparet debt in the hands of Samuell Sherman 
and in the hands of Robert Stanford: 

about forty shillings 

the Estate is Indebted as ffoloweth 

to Benjamin Phillips 

to timothy Williamson 

to hopestill Beesbe 

to Ephraim Little 



/. s. d. 
01-00-00 
02-16-00 
00-08-00 
00-14-00 
00-08-00 
00-16-00 
00-05-00 
01-03-00 
02-13-00 
01-10-00 
00-14-00 
01-10-00 

29-12-01 
00-14-00 



0- 7- 


6 


O-IO- 





1-17- 





O-IO- 





O-OI- 





0-08- 


7 


0-05- 


6 


0-04- 


6 


0-15- 


9 


4-00- 





9- 0- 


I 


18-12-00 



0- 


V 


0- 


V6 


0- 


I- 6 


0- 


6- 



0-14- o 



This Inventory Recorded according to order 
p'' Nathaniel Morton Secretary to the Court 
for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth see 
book of Wills and Surveys Recorded folio 81 



BOND OF JOHN HAMMOND 

Wheras Joseph and Hanna House y^ two younger children of 
Samuell House of Sittuate Deceased have made Choyce of M"" John 
Haman of Watertowne in the Massachusets and John Sutton of Sittuate 



20 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



afores'^ to bee their guardians and the Courte have alsoe accepted of ttiem, 
and Coniitted the sayd children (together with such parte of y"-" estate as 
upon y*^ devision belongs unto them; (viz) for each of the children the 
sum of thirty six pounds thirteen shillings and two pens) unto the Care 
and charge of y^ above mentioned guardians. And they the said Mr. 
John Haman and Jn°. Sutton doe hereby binde themselves their heirs and 
Executors unto this Courte of New Plymoth in the sum of an hundred 
and twenty pounds stHing; carefully to provide for y^ s*^ childrens bringing 
up, whilst they are in their nonage, and to paye unto them their severall 
portions when it shall come to bee dew: (viz) unto Joseph when he shall 
Come unto the age of one and twenty y^rs and to his sist"^ Hanna when 
she shall bee of y*^ age of eighteen or at y*^ day of her marriage if soon'': 
And in case one or both the children above mentioned should dey before 
they have received this estate; that then the estate dew unto the deceased 
shall bee equally devided amongst then surviveing children of y^ s'' Sam- 
uell House or their heirs; In witness wherof they have here unto set their 
hands and scales: this j^^ of Octob"" 63. 



Signed sealed and deliv'^d 
to y^ Courte 
In y^ p''sence of 

Tho: Prence 

Jos: Winslow 



- John hammond 
John Sutton 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 



BOND OF ISRiVEL HOLMES 

Know all men by these p'^sents that I Israeli Holmes of Marsh- 
feild in y^ Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England In America yeoman 
doe Acknowledge my selfe heerby to stand bound and firmly oblidged 
unto y*^ Gov"", and Court of y*^ Jurisd of Plymouth aforesaid in y"^ penall 
sume of Thirty pounds in Current pay of New England at prise current 
when it is to be paid, for the true performance where of I the said Israeli 
Holmes doe heerby bind my selfe my heirs executors and Administrators 
firmly by these p''sents. Sealed and given this eight day of March Ann°. 
Dom, i6|. 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above boundcn Israeli Holmes hath ingaged before y^ Court of Plym- 
outh aforesaid to pay or cause to be paid the penall sume of fifteen 
pounds in Current pay of New England at prise current when delivered 
and paid unto the children of William Sherman of Marshfield aforesaid 
deceased if therefore the said Israeli Holmes his heirs Executors or admin- 
istrators doe bring up the children of y^ said William Sherman deceased 
untill they are of age and doe pay or cause to be paid the said sume of 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 21 

fifteen pounds in specia above signified unto y*^ children of William Sher- 
man of Marshfield aforesaid videlicett unto Hannah Sherman the sume of 
three pounds and unto Elizabeth Sherman the sume of three pounds and 
unto Patience Sherman the sume of three pounds and unto Experience 
Sherman the sume of three pounds when and as they and any of them 
Attaine to y^ age of eighteen years, and unto Ebenezer Sherman the sume 
of three pounds when he hath Attained to the age of Twenty one years, 
and in case any of them decease before y^ time age is expired that y^ 
pte of y^ deceased be paid to y'^ survivors of them by him or his heirs 
executors & assigns That then y^ above written obligation to be void and 
of none effect or otherwise to remaine in full force strength & vertue: 



Signed Sealed and delivered 
in p''sence of 
Timothy Roggers 
Samuell Arnold iuni: 



Israeli holmes 



(Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF NICHOLAS NICKERSON 

The Innvitary of Nicklas Nickson desesed y^ 26 of March 1681. Or 2: 

/. J-. d. 

The housing Land orchat and 7 acors of medow at and y" Cornc upon y'' land 38-QO-oo 

a pare of working oxen 06-10-00 

to a five yere owld stere at 2 li-io s: tow 3 yere owld sters at 3 li . . 05-10-00 

5 cows & 4 calvs at 2 li-5 s p' Cow 11-05-00 

1 yerling at 15 s 00-15-00 

2 mares- I li- 5 s p mare 02-10-00 

4 yerling Swine and fore leser swine 02-00-00 

8 bushells of Indian Corn 8 bushells of melle 

2 bush of rie : i bush of wheat 03-00-00 

to aparsell of meat 10 sh 00-10-00 

A musket at i pound one fowling pease i li - 5 s 02-05-00 

A sword at 7 s one dager at 3 s 00-10-00 

A feather bed & a bowlster: & 3 small pillows at 3 li 03-00-00 

2 pare of sheets 3 of the sheets at 15 s apese & i at 7 s- 6 d . . . 02-12-06 

to a pare of sheets i li - g s 01-09-00 

to a Coton & woU blanket at 5 s to a carsy woU blanket 00-12-00 

1 ruge 16 s one coverled & a sheat 17 s 01-13-00 

to afether bed & 2 boulsters & a pilow 03-00-00 

a pare of shcats 6 s 00-06-00 

to a coverld of woU 12 s & a greene rudge 8 s 01-00-00 

afether bed & a bowlster at 03-00-00 

tow 3 blankets 2 at 12 s & y^ other at 8 s 02-00-00 

2 coverleds at 12 s.- apese 01-04-00 

tow bedsteds at 4 s 00-04-00 

to a chest locke & kee: 5 s. a coward at i li 01-05-00 

tow chests at 5 s- apese on box at 4 s 00-09-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



a stuf coat : i li 13 s a Cloak coat 8 s 

acoat & wascot at 12 s- a wascot 7 s- a Sargc wascot 6 s 
a pare of serge brichcs 10 s- a pare of cloth brichcs 8 s- 
a pare of serge brichcs 12 s- A hat & band 8 s- 

3 pare of stockings at 6 s- 3 pare of shus 13 s- 
A hat I s- 3 bands i s- 3 ncckcloath-3 s-6 d- . . . 
A remnant of hoUond 2 hadkacher 2 s-Shurt 2 s- i par stockings i 
a bowlstcr case 4s-tow pillowbers one at 4s-one at 2s 
a bible spectacles and a glasse 2S-3 bibles at 7s-6d- 
a testament & a sermont bocke 2s- 4 napkins is-6d-p. napkin 
a parscll of small linning 4s- achest & a box at 2s- 

Cart & whel es boxes bands & axelltre pins 

a plow 4s- a sheere cowltcr boult & bee 9- 

a cops & pin & chaire 9 s- 

A bedsted 10 s- a barrcll & malases 8s- 2 whells 3 s- a pole . 

a panel! & bordlc 3s-halfe a hackell 4 s- a pare of Cards 2s- 6d- 

7 pound of lining yarne 17 s- 4 axes at 2 s- a brod axe 5 s- . 

2 hachcts, 3s- .2 wedges is-3d- one wedge 2s-6d- a lucking glasse 6d 

5 howes 3s- I stubing how is- 2 hows 4s- a prcsing Iron 6d 

one sith 3s- 6 owld siths 3s- 

2 pich forks is- one forke i s- a grindston i s- 
one conow 12s- 3 knifes 2 s- a tabacow tonngs 6 d- 

sisers is- a conow & a lie trofe 3 s- 

kniting nedlcs i s- small poles 6 d- a pes 2 s- a can 6 

a spad 4s- a trowell i s- 6 d- 

a powch & 2 horns i s- 3 li of flax 3 s-. 

5 pod of woll: 4s- 2 li of coting woU 2 s ... 

14 a pod of blew yarne 6 d- 

12 basket 6d apese, Yi a bushell of malt ls-6d-Indian 
a cart roap, is- 6d- 2 bags at 2 

4 bags a 2s-6d- p badge - 10 : 2 small bags is-p bage 

II barells of tarre at 3s- p barell 

a base line and huch is- 6d- a pecke 6d- 

2 deare skins-6 s- one ese huch 6 d.- .... 

a parsell of Joyle & tabacow 4s: a pillon cloath 2s-6d. 

a hoge skine los- powder led home shoat 3s - 

a cradcll & ruge 3s- a sifting trofe: & cover 4s- 

a pare of andirons: li-Ss; tow tramells 9s - 

a spit 5 s- a slise 4 s-6 d a pare of towngs is-a fender 3s. 

a grid Iron; is- a pare of bellos is-6d- i lampe 6d- 2 fring pans 

a worming pan 4s. a Iron pot & huch 14 s 

a Icser pot: 8s- a small pot 4s- 

a citell los. small citell 3s . an Iron skillctt 2s 6d . 

a brase citell los - a pare of lumes I li- 5s.- 

a puter bason 6s- 3 platers 4s - 4s p.pla.4 platers at 3 s - 6 d p pla. 

1 bason 4- i bason 2s - i bason is- 2 platers 5s- . 

2 bowles one 4s. y' other 3:7d- a qurt pot : 4s - pint pote 3s - 
2 poringers is- 6d- i poring is-3d - 4 poring is apese 
a drinking cup 2s- 4 small poring'^s - 2s- 4 glasses 2s . . . 
2 guges Is- a cupe 8d - 2 poring'^s 8d- apes : 



malt 7d- 



6 s. 



/. s. d. 
02-09-00 
01-05-00 
00- 1 8-00 
o I -00-00 
00- 1 9-00 
00-06-00 
00-05-00 
00- 1 0-00 
00-09-06 
00-08-00 
00-06-00 
01-10-00 
01-13-00 
00-09-00 
o I -04-00 
00-09-06 
01-01-00 
00-07-09 
00-08-06 
00-06-00 
00-03-00 
00- 1 5-06 
00-04-00 
00-03-06 
00-05-06 
00-04-00 

00-06-06 
00-07-06 
00-03-06 
00- 1 2-00 
01-13-00 
00-02-00 
00-06-06 
00-06-06 
00-13-00 
00-07-00 
o I - 1 4-00 
00- 1 6-06 
00-09-00 
00-18-00 
00- 1 2-00 
00-10-06 
00- 1 5-00 
01-13-00 
00- 1 2-00 
00- 1 4-07 
00-08-03 
00-06-00 
00-03-00 



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23 



1 gudge I sh - 4 dishes is- iCup 3 d- 

2 salt sellers is- a dram cup 3d- an ower glase 6d - 
4 earthen platers 2s- 6d- & 2 plates at gd apesc 
4 fish hucks a box 6d- 2 small cups & a greater 6d - 
a bason gd- a plater 6d- 2 platers is- a chamber pot & funell 3 
a silver spone 4s- : 12 spones 3s- drinking cup 6d - 
4 platers 2s- a smuthing lern tow leters 4- . 
Asmall box is-6d- 3 cushings 3- .6 Cheares 6s- 
4 glase botells-2s- i Square Betell 6d- .... 
a small table 3s- 3 earthen pots 6d- perpot i s-6d- 
12 traycs 6d- apese 6s- 20 trays 3d a tray 5s - 

2 earthen dishes is- 6 ladells i skimer: 3 pence apese 

3 barells one (charme) Chese fat: & one foller tube 

2 berbarell 2s- one bere barell 2 s- 

2 Sope tubs IS- a small tobe is- tow earthen pots 6d- 

12 trenchers - is- 2 ades: 3s- 

2 sickles: ls-6d- one ager: is- 6d - a small agcr is- one ager gd- 
2 Chesells is- i fille-is-6d- i small fillc i s- agimblet 6d- 
2 pare of shers - and an owld goudge : 
a hamer 6d- pinchers a harping lern: is- 6d- 

a boult 4 boults 6d pcse 

a parsell of owld small lern 

tow staples & tow rings - 3- - 

the sum cast up is 

dew from y*^ estate: depts to be taken out. 



/. s. d. 
00-02-03 
00-01-09 
00-04-00 
00-01-00 
00-05-03 
00-07-06 
00-06-00 
00-10-06 
00-02-06 
00-04-06 
00-11-00 
00-12-06 
00-06-00 
00-04-00 
00-02-06 
00-04-00 
00-04-09 
00-04-00 
00-00-06 
00-02-00 
00-02-06 
00-02-00 
00-03-00 
129-17- 9 
004-08- 6 

125-09-03 



/. s. d. 



dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 
dew 



-OS 






-13 






-09 






-17 






-08 




William Griffith 


-06 






-16 




the marke of 


-02 




Zacoriah X Ryder 


-01 






-01- 


6 




-10 







4-08- 6 



Mary Nickerson widdow & relict of Nicklos Nickerson of yarmouth 
dececed made oath to the truth of this Inventory this 21 daye of August 
1682 before me John Thacher Asist. 

This Inventory is Recorded According to order p me 
Nathaniel Morton Secretary see book of evidences 
of Wills and Inventorys Recorded folio: 27. 



24 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JAMES PITNEY 

A true Inventory of the estate of James Pitney taken by us 
John Bradford & John Bourne the 21. of March. 1663*— 

Imp"^ two Cowes i blacke Cow & one Browne Cow which hee gave to his /. s. d. 

daughter Abigaile 8-0-0 

Item: one blacke Cow w"' Calfe 4-0-0 

one oxe 6-5-0 

one yeare and vantage heifer 2-5-0 

Two Calves one browne calfe & one Red calfe marked ... of 

the neare eare I-15- o 

Beding: one bed & bolster 2-05- o 

one old Rug. 2 blankets a paier of sheets 1-3-0 

Cloathcs: one sutc of Cloathes & hat & 2 bands 2-1-0 

one great Coate one old stufe sute one Kersy sute .... 2-0-0 

one old dublit & one old Coate & 2 shirts. 2 Caps- 0-13-0 

one pcir Shewes & one peire of stockings 0-3-0 

one old trunke & one Chaire & one old hat 0-6-6 

three handkcrchers 0-1-6 

one halfe of a Colt 0-5-0 

Husslements with a Bedstead 0-6-0 

y" summe is 32-9-0 

debts: 

To goodman Wharton Sen. 4'''^ tobbaco 0-4-0 

To nath: winslow for tobbaco 0-5-0 

To m'' Hew Williams 0-5-0 

Sarah y^ wife of Jn°. John Bradford 

Thomas, made oath to John Bourne 

this inventory; May 24.64 

Before Jos : Winslow 
Asist. 



BOND OF NAOMI SILVESTER 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Naomy Silvester widdow 
and John Silvester planter both of Marshfeild in the Jurisdiction of New 
Plymouth, doe acknowlidg our selves bound and feirmly obliged unto the 
Gov'': and Court of New Plymouth in the Just sume of five hundred pound 
sterling, for the payment whereof well and trcwly to be made wee bind our 
selves fermly by these p''sents Sealed and given this first day of December 
Anno Dom 1663 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above bounden Naomy Silvester hath obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to administer on the estate of Richard Silvester deceased; if there- 
fore the said Naomy Silvester shall and doe pay all debts and legacyes 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 25 

due and owing from the estate of the said Richard Silvester and be Reddy 
to give an account unto the Court of her said Adminestration when ther- 
unto Required by the Court that then this obligation to bee void and od 
none effect or otherwise to Remain in full force and Vertue; 

Signed Sealed 

and delivered in the p''sence 

of The marke of 

John Sutton Naomy Silvester (Seal) 

Joseph Church John Sillvester 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF BENAJAH PRATT 

An Inventory of the lands goods and Chattle of Benajah Pratt 
desesed taken by us whose names are under written the 6 of may: 1682 

as followeth: i ^ j 

Imprimis his wearing aparel 04-10-00 

Item: in booke • . . . 00-18-00 

2 oxen at 6-10-0: 3 Cows 6-10-0: 2: 2 year olds 3-0-0 ; 3 yearlings - 3-0-0 . ig-00-00 

I Cart and i paire of wheels and yoke 1-19 01-19-00 

I plow and plow ions i : i chaine i paire of hookes and flayle i bolt and 

Shakel and 2 axeltree pinns 01-15-00 

3 axes and 2 wedges los. : 6 old hows and other yron and hammers . . 01-07-00 

3 saws and reap hookes and sithes and i paire of chisels 00-10-00 

1 pitchforke and dung fork 3s.: 3 sithes and 2 snethes 00-16-00 

2 guns at 2s. an old sword powther and bullets and shot and powther 

homes and shot bags 03-00-00 

The widows bed and furniture 6 li. : 5 paire of Sheets 6s-io- .... 10-10-00 

on trundle bed and trundle Sted and furniture 04-00-00 

I bed in the Chamber and furniture and 3 blankest 05-10-00 

9 pillow beres 15s. i table cloth 8 napkins lod.- 01-08-00 

A smal pillow and a parcel of fethers 01-10-00 

in pewter I li. - 15s. Spoons 4s. 6d. trenchers and knives and sisers. . 02-02-00 

earthen weare and glas hotels lis. 6d. yron pots and pot hooks . 01-17-05 
old bras 5s.-6d: 2 paire of pot hangers: 2 smothing yrons i grindston i 

fire slice, i paire of tongs I spit 01-08-00 

wollen and linen yarn and flax teere and sheeps wool 02-16-06 

4 chests with old boxes i siveting trough and 2 sives 01-04-06 

tubs trays paines i Spinning wheel with other old lumber 01-14-00 

I paire of Cards bags and baskets with smal things 01-00-00 

4 chaires 5 deere Skins oo-ii-oo 

I hundred of shingle bolts in the woods and 50 at home 00-13-00 

a parsell of pine knots in the woods and i thousand and halfe of Shingle . 01-04-00 

5 tar barrels 00-06-00 

The housing and land adioning and 3 acres adjasent, total is ... . 44-10-00 

8 acres of land at a place called pontuses medowcs 12-00-00 

5 acres of medow at the South medowcs 10-00-00 

6 acres of medow at Crane brooke 09-00-00 



26 THE PLYiMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

6 acres of upland at a place called Smal gaincs not laid out 02-10-00 

60 acres of land at (...) at 02-10-00 

4 acres of Swamp at Cedar bridge at Southmere not laid out i Cart rope 

and horse trases 00-07-00 

Debts due from this estate 

to m' Gray- 06-05-00 

to Abraham Jakson 03-13-00 

to will Ring ... 01-03-00 

to will harlow Senior . 00-05-03 

to John Jordan 00-03-00 

On the oath of Persis Pratt Widdow 

This Inventory is Recorded according Will harlow 

to order pr me Nathaniel Morton Joseph Donham 

Secretary see book of evidences johnathan X his mark 

of lands Recorded folio: 12 pratt 



BOND OF MARGARET SOULE 

Know all men by these p'sents that wee William ffoord Sen"': of 
Marshfeild in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth and Margeret Soule of 
Duxbury in the Jurisdiction aforesaid widdow doe acknowlidg our selves 
bound and fcirmly obliged unto the Gov^ and Court of New Plymouth afore- 
said in the sume of an hundred pound sterling for the payment whereof well 
and trewly to bee made wee bind our selves our heires and executors Joyntly 
and severally feirmly by these p''sents Sealed and given this 2cond of 
march Ann°: Dom 1663/ 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above bounden Margarett Soule hath obtained letters of adminestration 
to adminester on the estate of Zaceriah Soule deceased if therefore the 
said Margaret Soule doe save harmles and undamnified the said Gov^ 
and Court from any damage that may arise by her said adminestration: 
and pay all debts and legacies due from the said estate and bee Reddy 
to give an account of her said adminestration when thereunto Required 
by the Court; that then this obligation to bee void and of none effect 
or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue 



Signed Sealed 
and delivered in the 
p''sencc of 
John Sutton 
John Morton 



willi ffoord Senior (Seal) 
The marke x 

of Margaret Soule (Seal) 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



27 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF FRANCIS COMBE 

An Inventory of the Estate of m"^ fltrancis Combe of the Towne 
of Middlebery Deceased Taken and Appraised by Isaac Howland and 
Samuel Wood AHas Atwood is as ffolloweth 



In the DweUing house 

Imprimis In Cash 

His wearing Apparell of all sorts 

I Table forme and 2 Join Stooles 

The Best bed and furniture thereunto 

I Bed; Pillow; Blankets & Coverlid 

I Bed; 2 Blankets and i Coverlid 

1 Bed; bolster and 2 blankets 

2 paire of Sheets i table Cloth, Napkins Towels and Pillowbears 

I bible 2s. I Rasor and Combe is is 

Pewter 

Brasse 

I paire Andirons; fire shovel and tongs, I Spit and i Trammel 

I paire of Stilyards 

I Great Chest 

I Chest one Box 

3 old Chests 

Earthen and Tin ware & Spoons 

Chairs 

1 Halfe bushel; Trayes; Trencher & woode Dishes 

Iron Kettle Pott and Pot hooks 

Beare Skin and Deare Skins 

2 Spinning Wheeles, Cards and Yarne 

Glasses 

I Sadie : Pillion Cloth and baggs 

I Cradle i paire scales & Baskets 

I Gun 

3 Barrells And one halfe of Cider 

3 galls Rume .... 

A smal percill of Rie and Barly 

The Remaining Time of two Indian Servants ... 
old Baske Gimlets & tubs 



/. s. 
0-12- 

5-15- 
0-14- 
7-12- 
4- o- 
2-14- 
I- o- o 
2-14- 6 
0-03- o 
2-03- o 
1-04- o 
1-04- 6 
0-12- o 
0-06- 

o- 5- 
o- 4- 
o- 8- 

0- 9- 
0-14- 
0-14- 6 
0-13- o 

1- 4- 
o- 3- 
0-16- 

0- 4- 
0-12- 

1- 8- 
7-6- 

0- 6- 
10- o- 

1- I- 



without Dores 

1 Cart; old paire of Iron bound wheeles, Yocke, Horse Taklinge The wood 

of a plough And smal things y' belong to them with A pee of A Cartropc 
old Iron Chaines; Hoes & other tools 
Barly & oates unthrashed. 
Rie unthrashed 
Wheat unthrashed 

2 bushell of Corne at mil . 
Apercell of Rie in a Barrell 
Indian Corn in a Crib unthrasht, Estimated at 



58- 4- 9 



2-10- 





2-4 - 


6 


I-I2- 





3-15- 





2- 5- 





0- 5- 





0- 6- 





16- 0- 






28-17- 6 



28 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

Cattell /. s. d. 

4 oxen ii- o- o 

3 Cows 6- o- o 

4 heiffers & i bull of 3 ycarc old 8-15-0 

5 Yearling 6-5-0 

3 Steares 7-0-0 

3 Calves 2-5-0 

The one halfe of a Cowe i- o- o 

I old Horse I-IO- o 

I mare and Colt 2-0-0 

The Hay Included in y"' price of y^ Cattle 45-15" o 

3 swine at 42s; 8 swine at 3L -4s- is 5-6-0 

14 swine at 56s; i swine at 20s, is 3-16- o 

9-2-0 

1 Chest with smal pes of Pewt'' & other smal things 00-17-00 

2 smal Kettles 8s; i warming pan 4s 00-12-00 

I box Iron and 2 heaters 00-02-00 

3 Trayes i Lattin pot & Saucpan 4s- 00-02-06 

I old sourd i old Handsaw & 2 old Augers 00-02-06 

I bed; bolst*^; Coverlid; old rug and an old blanket 03-17-00 

I Cow 40s. I yearling 25s. I calfc 15s 04-00-00 

I Iron pot 00-08-00 

20-01-00 
The total of the Personal Estate brought from the other side is ... 144-00-03 

His flFarme with his Dwelling house and Grist Mill with 

the Implements belonging to the Mill; And three Accres 

of Meadow Lying at Pechaye in y" Meadowes of Edward Gray 

Deceased; with the one fourth part or six shares of the 

undivided Lands Purchased from the Indians which belong- 

eth to the said flFarme with the Privilidges Belonging 

thereunto; all valued at 180- o- o 

I twenty accre Lot of Land at VVaxemucket 2-10-0 

I forty Acre Lot of Land Lying Nere Road Hand path 2-10- o 

329- 0-03 
January the 5*^*^ 1682 Isack howland 

Samuel Wood 
Since Come to Light Alius Atwood 

A graunt of six acres his x mark 

of meadow Lying at South Meadows 
in Plymouth Also one Grinstone 
& two sives and Adam wright oweth to the estate .... -3-0 

This Inventory is Recorded pr Ale Nathaniel Morton 
Secretary to the Court for the Jurisdiction of New 
Plymouth see book of Wills & Inventoryes 
Recxard folio; 52 















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BOND OF WILLIAM SWIFT AND RICHARD CHADWELL 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 29 

BOND OF WILLIAM SWIFT AND RICHARD CHADWELL 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee William Swift planter 
and Richard Chadwell Ship carpenter both of Sandwich in the Jurisdiction 
of Plymouth in New England, doe acknowlidg our selves bound and feirmly 
oblidged unto the Gov*". . . of Plymouth aforesaid in the sume of one 
hundred pounds sterling; for the payment whereof well and tmely to bee 
made we bind our selves our heires executors and administrators Joyntly 
and severally feirmly by these p''sents sealed and given this 4*^*^ of march 
Ann°: Dom: 1663/ 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden William Swift hath obtained letters of administration 
to Administer on the estate of Mistris Jone Swift deceased; if therefore 
the said William Swift shall and doe from time to time and at all times 
save harmles and undamnifyed the said Gov"': and Court of Plymouth 
aforesaid from any damage that may arise by his said administration 
and pay all such debts and legacies as are due from the said estate and 
bee Redy to give an account of his administration when therunto Re- 
quired by the s'* Court that then this obligation to bee void and of none 
effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue. 

Signed Sealed and William Swift (Seal) 

delivered in the p''sence Richard Chadwell (Seal) 

Witnes. John Morton 
John Sutton 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF PHILIP DELANO 

An invitary of The estate of y*^ Dissesd philip Delano of Dux- 
borough ... by us whose names are under writen This forth of march 

81 or 82 

/. s. d. 

2 oxen 007-00- o 

3 Cows 006-15- o 

2 steeres 004-10- o 

I haifer 001-08- o 

I horse 002-05- o 

mare 001-05- o 

Colt 000-12- o 

5 Sheepe 001-10- o 

Swine 001-13- o 

4 axsies 000-10- o 

5 wedges and 2 saws and other wood 001-04- ° 

Cart and cart Tackling 001-07- o 

A bed and furniture and other beding 006-00- o 



30 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

Corne and Clothing 007-00- o 

bras ware and Spite morter and pestle 001-00- o 

Iron howsell stuffe ooi-ii- o 

puter and Tin 000-14- o 

( . . . ) 000-15- o 

( . . . ) ■ ■ .■ : ( . . . ) 

(...) and a chairc with other Household lumber 000-17- o 

TheTotall 50-13-00 



josiah standish 
Jonathan alden 



This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p'' Nathaniel Morton Secretary to the Court for 
the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth — see book 
of Wills and Inventoryes enroled folio 6; 
on the oath of Samuel Delano 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN FISH 

An Inventory of the estate of m"' John ffish deseased taken this 18 
of november 1663 by us whose names are underwritten 

/. s. d. 

Imprim Six Cows 20-00-00 

two three yeare olds 06-13- 4 

two two yeare olds 03-10- o 

tow Calves 01-15- o 

the howse land and meadow 30-00- o 

Indian Corne 04-10- o 

wheat and pease 01-03- o 

hay 03-00- o 

a beast howse 00-10- o 

the bed boulster & one pillow 03-16- o 

the three sheets 00-12- o 

three pillowbcers 00-05- o 

tow blankets 00-12- o 

the bedsteed 00-16- o 

the Curtaines and valens 00-14- o 

the bed matt and bed Cord 00-03- o 

one linen whcele 00-03- o 

one rug 01-10- o 

three barrclls of tarr 01-10- o 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 31 

/. s. d. 

one old flock bed cx)-o6- o 

one suit of cloth 02-00- o 

one long Coat 01-00- o 

one troopers Coat oi-io-o 

one bearing blanket 00-15- o 

one paire of breaches 00-12- o 

one hatt one neckcloth tow paire gloves one paire of mittens three bands 

I paire stockens, one wascot 01-10- o 

fowre pewter platters tow basons one candlesticke and some other old pewter 01-00- o 

one brasse morter one grater one Cullender one brush 00-04- o 

one brasse kettle & tow skellets 01-00- o 

one Iron pott & pot hooks & pot hangers one spitt one paire of toungs & ficr 

pan one old gridiron 01-00- o 

one paire of andirons one axe & hoes 00-14- o 

one friing pan & smothing Iron one sofe one Trunke 00-14- o 

tow earthen bottles three earthen potts one gun pppbox 00-17- 6 

five old barrell five milke tubbs one Churne 00-18- o 

two Cives two pailes 2 firkins trenchers spoons 00-06- o 

five milke trayes Cheesefat 2 Cow bells one aule 00-05- 6 

one paire of Cards tow Chaires some butter & Cheese Sheeps wool . . 00-10- o 

some old things and some things forgotten 00-10- o 

butter payd viz i firkin a 72^ 

Richard Bourne 
Nathaniel ffish 

Debts owing before his death 

Imprimis to John Gorum 11-00- o 

to William Swift 04-00- o 

to Richard Bourne 03-10- o 

to Joseph Holly 00-15- o 

to James Skiffe sen 00-08- o 

to Henry Saunders 00-10- o 

to Joseph Winsor 00-05- o 

to William Swift for his care to M" Swift 00-15-0 

to Nathaniell ffish 00-04- o 

Debts since his death for the family use 

to Richard Bourne 01-14- o 

to William Swift 00-09- o 

to Joseph Burge 00-10- 

to Nathaniell ffish 00-04- 

to Robert Rolock 01-00- 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel Morton Gierke of the Court for 
the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth; 



o 



32 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENl'ORY OF ESTATE OF NICHOLAS WADE 

An Inventory of the Lands goods and Chattells of Nicholas 
Weade deceased taken the ii day of March 1683 by us whose names 
are heerc underwrighten 

/. s. d. 

Impr" puree and apparel! 04-00-00 

one Dwelling house and Barne upland and meadow Land 60-00-00 

The Best bed and bedsted and furnature 06-00-00 

Two flock beds and bedsted and furnature 06-00-00 

A peace of wollen Cloth 02-10-00 

Two Joyne Sheets 01-10-00 

In sheets and other Linan 03-00-00 

Linan and Gotten yarne 01-00-00 

In pewter and Tin 03-13-00 

In Brasse 03-10-00 

In lern potes Cettclls 01-00-00 

Trammell Tonges and other lern things 00-12-00 

Armes and Ammunition 01-00-00 

Bookes 00-08-00 

one long table formes Joyn Stools 01-10-00 

In set work Tubes and pailes 00-06-00 

In Beefe and porke ' 01-00-00 

for fower Cowes one Bull Two yering chatell 13-15-00 

In sheep 02-10-00 

Two mares 03-10-00 

Two young swine 00-10-00 

Lumber belonging to the house 01-00-00 

one bridl and sadle Coller and Trayces 00-12-00 

In Rie and Indian Corne 00-16-00 

axe Chayn a Crow and other lern ToUes 01-00-00 

one hichell 00-06-00 

spining wheles and Cards and earthen weare 00-08-00 

one Loking glasse and a box lerne 00-03-00 

debts due to the estate 04-00-00 

Totall 120-19-00 

Isack Buck senior 
Samuel Clap 

This 24 day of June 1684 apered Elizabeth wade the Relict of Nickolas 
wade deceased and gave oath to this Inventary that it is a true Inventary 
of all the estate of her late husband deceased as far as she knows and 
that if afterward there do come more to light she will make descovry of it. 
Taken before me John Cushing. By order of Court Debts due from the estate 

/. s. d. 

one item to IVr John Winge of Boston ii-oo-oo 

Item to Margaret Coleman 02-00-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 33 

/. s. d. 

Item to Ensigne Alin 01-1000 

Item to Ephrime Littell 01-06-00 

More in small debts 04-10-00 

02006-00 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF GOING WHITE 

An Inventory of the goods and Chattells which Goinge White died 

seased of as they weare showed to us whose names are under writen; 
taken the %'^^ of Desember 1664. 

/. s. d 

one mare : 2 yeare ould Coltes: one sucklinge Colt 12-1000 

2 oxen: 2 Cowes i yeare ould steeare 18-0000 

4 swine 02-1000 

Bedinge 01-1000 

one Iron Kettell 0012-00 

one olde Chaine with other olde Iron 00-09-00 

one friinge pann 00-02-00 

2 olde shurts with sum other Lininge ooiooo 

2 olde shutes 01-05-00 

one sadell bridle & pannell 01-10-00 

Remnants of Cloth 3 payre of stockings & sum blew Lininge .... 03-00-00 

Shew nailes and sparrowbills 0006-03 

i Remnante of sope i payer of tonges 2 old bags with a Cope .... 0009-00 

2 old chests & a forme 0005-00 

i litell old Kettell with sum barrels, tray & other Lumber 01-0000 

i p'sell of blasted wheate & one hatt ooiooo 

mony 0009-06 

halfe abarell of mackrell ooiooo 

i Cow at John Oatises 04-00-00 

2 yards and halfe of brod Cloth 01-1000 

300 of seader boultes 0015-00 

i old spade & 4 bushell of Appells 0008-00 

In debts, by bill & other wise 06-1000 

58-11-08 
p me James Cudworth 

Isack Bucke 

6 payer of shewes 01-04-00 

59-15-00 

James Cudworth 



34 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SAMUEL WHEATON 

Samuell Wheatons Land in the First Ranke 

/. s. d. 

Item twenty Acores of land vallucd att 20-00-00 

fiveteen acrees of land of the last devision 07-10-00 

Wearing Clothing wooling And Linning 02-10-00 

It 3 akers of meade or paster land upon mount hope line books. 00-12-00 

gun sword and hilt 00-16-00 

puter skilet frying pan And other household goods 01-00-00 

wool Coten And flax And some hemp 01-15-00 

Tooles of severall sortes And A trap 01-17-00 

wooling yearne 00-08-00 

Two spinning wheels And Cards 00-08-00 

Plowsheir And Colter tramell and pot hooks 00-10-00 

one mare And six swine 03-10-00 

one Cow 02-00-00 

five young Cattell And two Calves 06-15-00 

foder 01-00-00 

Corne 01-08-00 

Two Chests one broad howe And other Lumber 01-00-00 

This is a true Inventory of the estate 

of Samuell Wheton deseased taken 

by us February 14'^'^ 1683 Elizabeth 

Hugh Cole Wheaton Relict of Samuell Wheaton 

Obadiah Bowen late of Swanzy deceased appeared 

Caleb eddey & made oath that the above is a 

true Inventory of the estate of y^ 
s*^ Samuell soe farr as she knoweth 
& when she knows more she will dis- 
cover the same, 
before me Tho Hinckley Gov'' 

Depts Allready sertainly knowne 17-07-07 

Credit 02-12-07 

This Inventory of the Estate of Samuell Wheatons is 
Recorded according to order p me Nathaniell Morton 
Secretary to the Court for the Jurisdiction of New 
Plymouth see the year book of Wills and Inventoryes 
Recorded folio 8: 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF CORNELIUS . . . 

An Inventory of the goods & Chattells which: Cornelius . . . 
Irishman that lately died at bastable was possed ofT and also an accounte 
of the Charges expended on him in sickness and at his buriall: the 20 
of Desember 1664 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



35 



In bedinge . 

2 Shurtcs 

i hat 

i payer of shewes 

i swine 



these prised by : George Lewis 
Joshuah Lumbart: James Claghorne: 

In Indian Corne 

In debts: by John amicoy 

by David Micillam 



/. s. d. 
00-04-00 
00-05-00 
00-05-00 
00-01-06 
00-04-00 

00-19-06 



00-10-00 
00-06-00 
00-03-00 



01-18-06 



/. s. d. 

Debts he owes to John Gorum o- i- o 

to Nath: Barton 0-1-6 

Thomas Lumbart o 3" ° 

Charges for tendinge of him in his siclcnes o-io- o 

for a shroud 0-05- o 

for a cofine . . 0-05-00 

a botel of Licker 0-01-06 

Barnard Lombarts Charge 0-05-00 

Barnard Lumbart 1-12-00 
The time when the man died was about 
the 1 5^** of December 1664 



DEED OF SAMUEL NASH 

These p'sents may certifie all whome it may concerne that whereas 
Lifetenant . . . Samuell Nash of Duxburrow being aged is not in 
a Capacity to live & keep house of himselfe hath therefore put his estate 
into y^ hands of William Clarke of Duxborow that thereby hee may have 
a Comfortable livelyhood as also to certifie the sume totall of his moveable 
estate and it is as followeth: 



by one great bed & bedding . 
It by another bed & bedding 

It Iron ware 

It peuter and bras 

It one Churne 

It wooden & earthen vcssells 

It a cubhard & Tubb 

It a Table Tubs & Chaircs 

It a Chest twien & Curtains 

It a Belace A glass & other things 



/. s. c 
05- o- 
02- o- 

01-18- 

01-04- 
00-02- 
00-00- 

00-05- 
01-05- 

02-03- 
00-05- 



36 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

It one Cow & swine 02-15- o 

It Corne & barly oo-ii- 3 

It one pitch forkc 00-01- o 

It by mony 00-04- o 

the totall sum is 17-18- 3 

The prizcrs were John Cole & philip Leanard being chosen by William 
Clarke & approved by Liuetenant Samuell Nash; written by Thomas 
Delano this iS^"": 83: further as foUoweth 

/. s. d. 

one Horse i-oo- o 

one gun 0-I2- o Samuell 

one prospective glass Nash 

one pestell & mortcr 
also y^ dcsposing of his 
house & land during 
his life time 

This Court doth allow this written account to be y"^ real due of 
Martha Clarke y^ wife of William Clarke of Duxburrow in Compensation 
of her paines in looking to her father Samuel Nash late deceased: 

by me Nathaniel Morton Secretary 

John Bryant of Plymouth for being distempered in drinking is fined by 
the Court five shillings 



BOND OF THOMAS WOOD 

Know all men by these p''sent that I Thomas Wood of Swansey doe 
acknowledge my self to stand bound unto the Gov"" and Court of New 
Plymouth in the penall sume of fifty pounds for the payment wherof well 
and truely to be made doe bind mee my heirs executors and administrators 
feirmly & by these p''sents sealed and given this fift of March -g; 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
Elizabeth Wheaton hath obtained of the Court letters of administration 
to administer on the estate of Samuell Wheaton late of Swansey deceased 
if therefore the said Elizabeth Wheaton shall pay or cause to be payed 
all such debts and legacyes as are due and owing to any from the said 
estate soe farr and by equall proportions as the estate will amount unto 
and save harmles and undamnifyed the said Gov"" and Court from any 
damages that may acrew unto them by her said administration and 
keep a due accompt thereof and be Reddy to give account thereof to the 
Court of Plymouth when by them Required that then this obligation to 
be void and of none effect or otherwise to Remain in full strength & vcrtue 




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BOND OF SUSAN WHESTON 



THE PLYA4 0UTH SCRAP BOOK 37 

MEMORANDUM OF A VERDICT 
the verdict 
That if the Cuting or Carrying away of Grasse or hay of from the 
meddow now in Controversy for the space of twenty yeer and upward 
without any Legall Molestation Give legal! Title then wee find for the 
Now Plaintiffe 2 pound 15s damage & the cost of the suite; if not wee 
find for the defendant the Cost of the suite; 



DISCHARGE OF JOSEPH BARSTOW 

This Court doth discharge Joseph Barstow from keeping of an ordi- 
nary and this Court doth Graunt Lycence unto Joseph Silvester to keepe 
an ordinary att his house att the North River for the entertainment of 
Strangers to be well provided with the Nesesaries for the entertainment 
of them both for them and for their horses in respect to good diet and 
bedding alsoe that he keep good order in his house that hee Incur noe 
Just blame through his Neglect as hee shall see cause and to keepe out 
others. 



NOTICE OF WARNING AWAY OF JOHN ABRAHAMS 

Mr. John Miller Gave Notice to the Court of one John Abrahame 
whoe is lately come into the towne of Yarmouth that is likely to be charge- 
able unto the said towne . . . according to law not theire to abide; this 
being the next Court after the said Abraham Came into the said towne. 



COURT ORDER FOR PAYMENT OF ROBERT STANFORD 
AND NATHANIEL TURNER 

It was ordered that Robert Stanford is to be payed in the same 
goods that were taken by the constable from Nathaniel Turner to pay him, 
and the cost of the suit, excepted; only 5 shillings to be allowed to Robert 
Stanford; 

It is ordered that Nathaniel Turner shall be payed all the Goods 
that was taken by the constable by execution from the said Nathaniel 
Turner for Robert Stanford, only five shillings for wintering a Cow or 
the cost of the suite which is 30 s Silver mony — 

BOND OF SUSAN WHESTON 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Susanna Wheston widdow 
of the Towne of Scittuate in the Government of New Plymouth in New 



38 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



England Joseph Whiston feltmaker of the same place and Edward Jen- 
kins of the Towne aforesaid in the Jurisdiction aforesaid yeoman, doe 
acknowlidg our selves bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'' and Court 
of New Plymouth in the sume of sixty pounds sterling for the payment 
wherof well and truely to bee made wee bind our selves our heires exec- 
utors and administrators feirmly by these p''sents Joyntly and severally 
feirmly sealed and given this sixt day of October Ann°: Dom: 1664 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Susanna Whiston and Joseph Whiston have obtained 
letters of administration to Administer on the estate of John Wheston 
of Scittuate late deceased: if therefore the said Susanna Wheston and 
Joseph Wheston shall and doe pay all such just debts and lagacies as are 
due and owing from the estate of John Wheston aforesaid soe far and by 
equall pportions as the estate will amount unto . and keep a due account 
... of thcire said administration and bee Reddy to give an account therof 
to the said Gov'': and Court when therunto Required by them or either 
of them; and save harmles and undamnifyed the said Gov'': and Court 
from any danage that may arise to them or either of them; by theire 
said administration; That then this obligation to bee void and of none 
effect or otherwise to Remaine in full' force and vertue 



Signed Sealled 

and delivered in the p''sence 

of 

Isack Chittenden 

Michael Peirce 



Susana 
Whiston 

Joseph Whisstons 
Edward Jenkins 



(Seal) 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SAMUEL CHANLAR 

Duxborough this 19 day of the 9 month 1683 
An Invitory taken of the Estate of the late desesed 
Samuell Chanlar By us Thomas delano And John Rouse 

/. s. d. 

It 2 Cows 004-00- o 

It 4 heifers 006-00- o 

It one mare 001-00- o 

It one ox ... 002-00- o 

It 12 shccpe 002-14- o 

It 2 pigs 000-04- ° 

It wearing Cloting and mony 002-13- o 

It Beading 001-04- o 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



39 



It meate And sider .... 

It new Cloath 

It brass kitles one warming pan . 

It one pot and posnite 

It wedges and plow exseter . 

It puter 

It one sadle 

It wheat and ry Indian Corn ots 

It Books 

It earthen ware and wooden lumber 
It one frying pan .... 

It Tobaco 

It Tramils and Tongs .... 

It hay 

It The widows Bed and beding . 
It posts and Rals 

The Totall sume .... 



/. s. d. 
ooi-io- o 
000-16- o 
001-02- o 
000-05- o 
001-00- o 
000-12- o 
000-05- o 
004-05- o 
000-03- 
000-10- 
000-01- 
000-15- 
000-05- 

003-04- 

004-00- o 
000-15- o 



039- 8- 6 



The debts thar Are deu out of the estate 



To Captaine Thomas 

To John delano 

To the Cunstable . . 

To Edward Southworth 

To Joseph Chanlar 

To goodwife Brown 

To John Sprague 

To Sam Rowland 

To mast Wiswell 

To Ruth West 

To John Rouse 

To John Sole 

To Moses Simons 

To John Simons 

To William Bruster 

To William foles 

To Sam West . 

To Joseph Prier 

To Thomas Delano 

The totall sume is 



006-13- I 
000-04- o 
000-04- o 
000-02- o 
000-06- o 
000-05- o 
000-01- o 
000-01- o 
000-12- o 
000-03- 6 
000-19- o 
000-03- 6 
001-07- o 
013-09- 
000-02- 
000-06- 
000-04- 
000-02- 
000-01- 



012-12- o 



d. m. 
Duxborough the 17 : 9 : - 83 



Thomas Delano 
John Rouse 



40 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



BOND OF ANN TORREY 

Know all men by these p'scnts that wee Ann Torrey widdow 
of the Towne of Scittuate in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New 
England in America and Walter Hatch of the towne aforesaid in the 
Jurisdiction aforesaid yeoman doe acknowlidge our selves to be bound 
and feirmly obliged unio the Gov'': and Court of New Plymouth aforesaid 
in the sume of two hundred pounds for the payment of which well and 
truely to bee made wee bind our selves our heirs executors and admines- 
trators Joyntly and severally feirmly sealed and given this fift day of 
October Ann°: Dom. 1665; 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Mistris Ann Torrey hath obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to adminester on the estate of Leiftenant James Torrey late of 
Scittuate deceased: if therefore the said Ann Torrey shall pay or cause 
to bee payed all such debtes to any pson or psons due and owing from 
the said estate soe far and by equall proportion as the said estate will 
amount unto; and keep a true and Just account of her said Adminestra- 
tion and bee Reddy to give in an account thcrof unto the Court when 
by them Required therunto; and if- that shee the said Ann Torrey her 
heirs executors and adminestrators shall and doe from time to time and 
attall times save harmles and undamnifyed the abovesaid Court from 
any damage that may arise or acrew to them from her said adminestra- 
tion I'hat then this obligation to bee void and of none effect or othenvise 
to Remaine in full force and vertue 



Signed Sealed 

and delivered in the p''sence 

of 

Samuell Nash 

the marke of 

William Sherman 



the marke of 




Mistris Ann X 


(Seal) 


Torrey 




Waltar hatch 


(Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SAMUEL WITHERELL 

A true Inventary of all the estate of Samuell Witherell of Sit- 
tuate deceased taken this forth day of march ^ by us whose nams arc 

under written 

/. s. d. 

Impri his wearing Aparrell 03-00-00 

Ittm In arms and amunition 01-06-04 

Ittm 4 Cowcs 9 li : 3 Catcll of 3 yere ould 6 H : 

Ittm I bull I li : 16-00-00 

Ittm In sheep 01-16-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 41 

/. s. d. 

Ittm In beding and the furniture therto belonging 07-00-00 

Ittm In sheets and other linen 01-05-00 

Ittm In sider and beefe and porke 05-02-00 

Ittm In flax spinning wheels and cards 01-07-00 

Ittm In corne and buter and Cheese 02-13-00 

Ittm In chests boxes and Tools 01-04-00 

Ittm one silver spoone and pouter and laten ware 01-15-00 

Ittm In Bras and Iron ware 02-01-00 

Ittm In earthen and stoning warr and glas botels 00-05-00 

Ittm one Cradle payles Trays and sievs 00-17-00 

Ittm In Tallo and hogs fatt and smothing Iron 00-10-00 

Ittm In books 01-00-00 

Ittm In wooling yarne 01-10-00 

Ittm In swine 01-01-00 

Ittm In land 7 acres in the woods 06-05-00 

Ittm In ould lumber 00-06-00 

John Gushing 56-10-07 
/. s. d. Abraham Suttlife 
Due from the estate 4- 02- 06 

BOND OF JOHN COWIN AND JAMES CUDWORTH 

Know all men by these p'"sents that wee John Cowine of the 
Towne of Scittuate in the Jursidiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America planter and James Cudworth Senior of the Towne aforesaid in 
the Jurisdiction aforesaid Gen''""^" doe acknowlidge ourselves to be 
bound and firmly obliged unto the Gov'' and Court of Plymouth aforesaid 
in the just sume of Thirty pound sterling for the payment of which said 
sume well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors 
and administrators Joyntly and severally by these p''sents sealed and given 
this fift day of October Ann°: Dom: 1665/ 

The Condition of the above written obligation is Such that in case 
the above bounden John Cowin hee his his heires executors and admines- 
trators doe pay or cause to be payed unto Richard A4an Thomas Man 
and Josepth Man the sonnes of Richard Man deceased to each of them 
the sume of five pounds sterling in good and currant pay att the time of 
the delivery therof which is to be when as the said psons and as they 
shall come to attaine the age of twenty one yeares; which is the pte and 
portion of each of them from their said fathers estate that then the above- 
said obligation to bee void and of none effect or otherwise to Remaine 
in full force and vertue. 

Signed Sealed X (Seal) 

and delivered in the p'"sence of James Cudworth (Seal) 

Samuell Nash 

Nath Thomas 



42 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENl'ORY OF ESTATE OF ^L\RTIiA NELSON 

The cnvitary of Martha nelson descced 

/. s. d. 

imprimis housing: and upland 50-00-00 

Item: 4 acores of mcdow: Lying at the new meddo 04-00-00 

more the south medous 04-00-00 

Item: one acore of medow: Lying at dotes meadow soc caled .... 01-05-00 

Item: apece of mcdow lying upon the norwest side of the seeder svvampj . 01-05-00 

Item 4 acores of medow :moare or less upon Jonses river 01-10-00 

Item 2 Cowes 4 poundcs:one heayfcr.i pound 10: 2 Coltes i pound . 06-15-00 

Item 9 shccpe 3 pouend one mayrc:io shilins 2 pigges 8 shilingcs 03-18-00 

Item one bed, bolster, 2 pillowes on blanket on rugg 04-10-00 

Item one small flock bed and : rugg: 10 shilingcs on pare of shots 2 shillings 01-10-00 

Item one pece of cloth 15 shillingcs one pare of scales 12 shillingcs 01-01-00 
Item one shete 3 napcines 2 towels 10 shillingcs 2 pillowbcrcs and one napkin 

I shill 00-15-00 

Item 2 remnants of new lining Cloath. i shilling 6 pen: head lining 11 shil- 
lings OI-OI-OO 

Item starch: paper: nedlcs white thread and pines 00-01-06 

Item- neck hanccrcheres 12 shillingcs 2 whit aporncs 5 shillingLS . 00-17-00 

Item one grene aporne 4 shilling: one pare of gloves is: 00-05-00 

Item 3 blew apornes 4 shillingcs 3 neckcloathcs i shill 6 pence 2 shifts 10 

shillings 00-06-00 

Item one black scilckc hanchcr : one black Cap 00-03-06 

Item werring Cloathes one hat 00-13-00 

Item on bibell one psalm book II shillingcs 2 pcuter platers 10 shilins 01-01-00 

Item on bason: 3 shillin 6 pens . one salt seler 2 on smal bason: 2 shilins . 00-07-06 

Item on :smal:plater.2 shill: on quort pot :4 shill: on smal plater : 18 pence 00-17-00 

Item 2 porringers 2 shil.6 pen 2 porencers 2 shill: 6 spones 2 shill. . . 00-06-06 

Item on Candelstick on cup i shill 6 pen one potell: pot 3 shill: . . 00-04-06 

Item on Chamber pot 4 shill :3 smal earthen dishes i shill 6 penc . 00-05-06 

Item 2 platers: on bason :i shill 9 pen. 3 glas hotels i shill 4 pen . 00-03-01 

Item I oucr glas 12 pen : on Jerne Cetell 16 shill on Jorn pot 6 shill: . 01-03-00 

Item on Jorn pot 5 shill on Jorn Cetell — shill: on lorn spit: 5 shill: 00-15-00 

Item on lorn ax: i shil 6 pen: on lorn how:3 shill: and spade 2 shill: . 00-06-06 

Item on trammell pothockes and other small huckes 00-04-06 

Item on smothen lorn: 2 shill on friing pan 3 shill: 00-05-00 

Item on pare of tongs and fier slice 2 shill: on pare of shep shearcs 12 pen 00-03-00 

Item on spock shave 12 pen: on bras Cetell 5 shill: on Copper Cetell 3 shill 00-09-00 

Item on bras Cetell 2 bras pans a letcU Cetell & scemmor 00-06-06 

Item on Coper 8 shill on spice morter : and pesell 7 shill: 00-15-00 

Item on warming pan 7 shill on earthen pot 9 pence 00-07-og 

Item butter 4 shill on erthen pan 6 pen :hogs fat 12 pen: 00-05-06 

Item pork II shill I galon of molasses i shill 4 penc do)'le iS penc 00-14-00 

Item routs and other lomber in the scelcr 00-00-05 

Item 3 pare of hare hoples 2 shill 6 pen: wheat 9 shill: rye 4 shill 00-15-06 

Item Indian Cornc 25 shill on grat whel 2 shill a letell whcatc 5 shill 01-12-00 

Item 2 pare of Cards 2 shill 6 pen on pare of hotels i shill 6 pen: . 00-04-00 

Item on Chorne Smal Chcs fat 2 shill woden traycs l shill 8 trenchers 6 shill 00-08-00 

Item old Cascke and such lumber: 6 shill on ciften trof 18 pens .... 00-07-06 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



43 



/. /. d. 

Item on washing tub: i8 pen: on Chest 3 shill: on box: 2 shill 6 pen. . . 00-07-00 

Item a scetell : 12 penc: Chares 2 shill a box 6 pen 00-03-06 

Item 7 pound and half of woling yearne 00-15-00 

Item on flece of sheps woll 2 pound and halfe 00-02-06 

Item 5 pound of woll: 3 shill 4 pen 10 pound and quarter of clen woll 13 shill. 00-13-00 

Item 3 quorter of Coton yearn : 2 shill: 4 peces lead 12 pens: .... 00-03-00 

Item 4 peces of bras 18 pens: one lorn rack, 12 pen on pare of scales 6 pen: 00-03-00 
Item 2 bages 8 penc locking glas.6 pen :hay stoackes and flax 25 shill . 

Item 2 scives 



depts dew from the estat to m'' Crow 

To Thomas faunce 

To george watson . 

To sergent harlow . 

To Isack Cushman 

To James Cole . 

To ephrayem Cole 



01-06-02 
00-01-06 
98-00-08 

01-00-02 
01-00-00 
00-10-00 
00-02-00 

00-03-00 
00-04-00 
00-03-00 



This Inventory was taken and Aprised by us hose names 

are under reten this 7 day of march: ^"^4 

John doty John ricker 

John Nelson made oath to this Inventory 

att the Court holden att Plymouth the seventh 

of March '11 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p'' Nathaniell Morton Secretary to the Court 
for the Jursidiction of New Plymouth see 
New booke of wills and Inventoryes 
Recorded folio 74 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF FRANCIS STREET 

An Inventory of the goods of ffrancis Street of Tantone 
taken by willi harvey Edward Bobbat and Jonathan Brigs; 



Imprimis his wearinge apparell 

Item one Iron pott & a Iron kettell 

Item one brasse pott & skellct 

Item in pewter 

Item 2 books .... 

Item a horse and saddell 

Item a 3 yere olde stere . 

Item 5 cattell more 

Item 6 swine .... 

Item a sword and belt 



deceassed 

/. s. d. 

05-00-00 

01-00-00 

00-06-00 

00-06-00 

00-15-00 

06-00-00 

04-00-00 

1 2-05-00 

05-00-00 

00-10-00 



44 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

Item a plow and other workinge Implcmts 00-16-00 

Item in timber vessell chasse & chayre 01-05-00 

Item 2 pott hangers, one fire shovell & hoocks 00-08-00 

Item in several! smale things & some wollen yearne & bags not prissed . 01-10-00 
Item in debts due 02-18-00 

41-19-00 

ffor his house & lands we value at 70-00-00 

This was valued by us June: 3: 1665: 
Willi harvey 

The marke 
of Edward Bobbat 
ionathan brigs 



BOND OF ZECHARIAH JENKINS AND WILLIAM BASSIT 

Know all . . . that wee Zac . .' . and . . . Bassett of the Towne 
of Sandwich in the Collonie . . . New England in Anerica planters doe 
heerby acknowlidge our selves to owe ... be indebted unto the Gov"' 
and Court of Plymouth aforesaid in the penall sume of two hundred pound 
sterling for the payment of which well and truely to be made wee bind 
our selves our heires executors and Adminestrators Joyntly and severally; 
Joyntly by these p''sents sealed and Given this 2g^^ of October 1684) 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above bounden Zechariah Jenkens hath obtained Letters of Admines- 
tration to Adminester on the estate of John Jenkens of Sandwich aforesaid 
late deceased; if therefore hee shall or doe pay all such debts or dues as 
were owing to any by the said John Jenkens att his decease; and keep a 
due account of his Adminestration and be Reddy to give in a true accompt 
therof unto the Court of Plymouth when by them Required and save and 
keep harmles the Gov"": and Court from all damage that may accrew unto 
them by his said Adminestration (then this obligation) to be void & of 
none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue. 

Signed Sealed & delivered In p''sence of 

Joseph Bradford Zacheriah Jenkins (Seal) 

Robert X Stanford William Bassit (Seal) 

his marke 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 45 

WILL OF WILLIAM SHEPHEARD 

the II of march leM 
this writing witnesseth that I will Shepherd of Taunton shoomaker doe 
make Constitute and Impowre my loving brother John hathaway of 
Taunton husbandman for to take Care of all that I will Shepherd (have) 
within. Taunton or any where else & to dispose any thinge that I have 
for the best advantage of mee and my Children I mean all my lands 
p''sent and to Come & all my Cattle and goods whatsoever heer or els- 
where within our lord king Charles Dominions and to take all debts due 
unto mee and if I die then to divide all my Right in lands to all my 
children only my eldest son Samuell shall have a double portion of all 
my lands and as for Cattle and goods and debts to bee divided equally 
among them all 

witttnes my hand 

Will Sheperd 



BOND OF JOHN HATHAWAY 

Know all men by these p^'sents that I John hathaway of Taunton in 
the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New England doe acknowledge 
myselfe bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of New 
Plymouth in the some of sixteene pounds for the payment wherof well 
and truely to bee made I bind mee my heires executors and adminestrators 
feirmly by these p''sents sealed and given this 9'^'' of June Ann°: Dom: 
1665 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the said John hathaway hath obtained letters of adminestration to admines- 
ter on the estate of William Shepheard deceased; if therefore the said 
John hathaway shall and doe pay all such debts and legacies as are due 
and owing from the said estate and save and keep harmles the said Gov"": 
and Court from all damage from time to time and at all times that may 
arise or acrew to them the said Gov'' or Court by Reason of his said admin- 
estration; and keep a true and just account of his said adminestration and 
bee Reddy hee his heires executors and adminestrators to shew the same 
to the Court when Required by the Court that then this abovewritten 
obligation to bee void and of none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full 
force and vertue. 

Signed Sealled 

and delivered in the 

p'"sence of 



46 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

The Court was Constrained to take the said John hathaway his single 
bond because hee could gett noe other to be bound with him to the Court; 
the words to give in the said account between the 12 and 13th lines inter- 
lined were soe done before the ensealing therof. 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF RICHARD AND RUTH SMITH 

the 13 of y^ S'*" month; 1684 

An Inveytory was taken of the estate of Richard Smith and his 
wife Ruth latly Desest: Both of y^ towne of Sandwidg: in the Colony of 
newplymoth in newengland; planttars: ind is as foolooth 

/. s. d. 

In primis Ito housing and lands at : 12-00-00 

Ito their wearing Cloathcs and beading and housall stuff at .... 12-00-00 

Ito Corne of all Sorts: asord belt and gune at 06-05-00 

Ito Chatels and ahors at 24-00-00 

Ito Swine at 01-00-00 

Ito Carte whells plow tackling and tooles of all sorts 02-00-00 

the totall is 57-05-00 

taken by us: John Allen senior 

Calleb Allen 
Ito the young mans best Remembarance 
Dew to be payd from this Estate 

/. s. d. 
to Cleare y^ Depts 16-00-00 

Benjamin Smith made oath before This Inventorj^ is Recorded 

the Court held at Plymouth the 30''' according to order p' me 

of October that which is above Nathaniel Morton Secretary 

written is a true Inventor}^ to the Court for the Juris- 

As Attesteth Nathaniel Morton; diction of New Plymouth, see 

book of Wills and Invento- 
ryes. Recorded; folio 81/ 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF LIEUT. JAMES TORREY 

An Inventory of the goods and Chattells; which Leftenant James: 
Tory; was seased of when hee departed out of this Life; tacken by us 
whose names are heare under written as they weare shown unto us this 
15 of September 1665 

/. s. .d 

Imprimis, his wcaringe Apparcll 07-00-00 

six yeards of wollen Cloth 02-02-00 

a remnant of Carsey 00-15-00 







INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF RICHARD AND RUTH SMITH 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 47 

/. s. d. 

a Remnant of penistone 01-02-00 

a Remnant of sarge 00-06-00 

Beding sheates & other Lininge 08-05-00 

two oxen 11-00-00 

three Cows i i-oo-oo 

a bull 03-00-00 

a 3 yeare ould steare 03-00-00 

2: 2 yeare ould steares 04-10-00 

halfe a two yeare old heafer 01-02-00 

I yeare old heafer 01-10-00 

3 Calves & a halfe 03-10-00 

one house 07-00-00 

Cotton woll; hemp teare; & Coorse yearne 01-10-00 

brass & pewter 01-00-00 

Iron pots; & a tramell; spit; gridiron; & tongs 01-09-00 

Carts: wheals plow; yockes; Chaine; & other plow tacklinge 02-15-00 

Sawes axes howes with other tooles 01-05-00 

gunns swords belts bandoleares & pattison 03-10-00 

Bookes 01-10-00 

barrells tubs Chests tubbes Chayrs trayes and other Lumber .... 01-15-00 

two Loomes with ther tacklinge 01-10-00 

pvitions in the howse 01-10-00 

tabacko 00-05-00 

Corne and ffrutes 04-00-00 

Swine 05-10-00 

Sider bolts and Cooper stufe 09-10-00 



102-01-00 



p mee James Cudworth 
Thomas Kinge 
John Cushin 
Joseph Tilden 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF PHILIP PHIBENS 

An Inventary of the Estate of Phillipe phibens of Sittuate lately 
deceased taken and aprised by us whose names are under writen this 02 
day of november 1684- 

/. s. d. 

Impri. one Coate one payre of Briches too wascots 02-1 i-oo 

Ittm 3 payer ould briches one ould Coate one ould wescot 00-10-00 

Ittm 3 payer stockings one payer shooes one payer gloves 00-12-00 

Ittm one shirt one payer drawers two neckcloths three hankerchers . 00-16-00 

Ittm one hatt one Cape 00-04-00 

Ittm one bed one pillow one blanket 00-16-00 

Ittm one Cow i li.-8 s-6d; one Sheepe one lambe 8s-6d 02-07-00 



48 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

Ittm one Carbine 00-06-00 

due to the estate in timothy whits hands 02-10-00 

due in Joseph Chittendcns hands 7s or a sheepe 00-07-00 

John Allin 
Israeli Chittenden 

due from the estate to timothy whit for funarall charges 00-13-03 

Ittem for the Coffin and grave diging 00-14-00 

Ittem to Edward Jinkins for Rum and sider oo-ii-oo 

Ittm to Samuel House for tendence of sayd phibens and laying him forth 

when dead 00-10-00 

Ittm due to Timothy whit for tendence and other trouble 00-15-00 

Ittm to Mary Cudworth for tendence 00-12-00 

Ittm to the aprisors 00-oS-oo 

Ittm to Samuel Clap for 4 days to seke out the estate and gitt it prised and 

mony layd out 00-10-00 

Ittm to John Cushing for time expended 4 days 00-10-00 

Ittm to Jeremiah Hatch for 2 days expended 00-05-00 

05-11-00 

These may sertifie the honered Court that the Inventary presented 
on the other side taken by the persons whose names are there unto sub- 
scribed whoe also gave oath to the Just aprisall there of was the whole 
of the visable estate that wee could find owned in any mans hands but 
only an old Chest of about 2s-6d valine which apertained to the sayd 
Phillipe Phibens only what may be due to the said Phibens for ayeare 
and halfes service from Edward Ginkings to sayd phibens he having 
Received but 3li- iis-iid for his service that yere and halfe 

date 28 November 1684 
per us John Cushing 
Jeremia hatch 
Samuell Clap 
Selectmen 

BOND OF JOSEPH WHETSTONE 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Josepth Whiston of the 
Towne of Scittuate in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America feltmaker and William Brookes and Edward Jenkens of the Townc 
aforsaid in the Jurisdiction aforsaid planters doe acknowlidge our selves 
to bee bound and firmly obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of Plymouth 
aforsaid in the sume of three score pounds sterling for the payment wherof 
well and truely to bee made wee bind ourselves our heires executors and 
adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p''sents sealed and 
given this ninth day of march Ann°: Dom. one thousand six hundred sixty 
and five 1665 / 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



49 



The Condition of the above written obHgation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Joseph Whiston is ordered by the Court of Plymouth 
aforsaid and hath hbertie to make sale of a psell of land lying and being 
att Conihassett so called . . . which said psell of land was sometime 
. . . Whiston deceased and since the land of the said Josepth Whiston 
as heire apparent unto the said John Whiston and by him the said Joseph 
Whiston given unto his brothers and sisters the children of the said John 
Whiston; if therefore the said Joseph Whiston shall and doe make sale 
of the said land with the healp and advise of his father in law William 
Brookes and unkell Edward Jenkens above named to the best advantage 
hee and they Can and that they dispose of the same wholly to the use 
and benefitt of the said children; according to order from the Court and 
keepe a faire and just account of their soe disposing of it and bee in a 
Reddyness to give in the said account unto the Court abovesaid when 
they shall by them be Required therunto that then this obligation to bee 
void and of none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue, 

Signed Sealled and 

delivered in the presence Joseph whetstone (Seal) 

of John howes 

Judah Thacher the marke of 

William Brookes (Seal) 

Edward Jenkens (Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF GYLES RICKARD 

A true Liventory of the Estate of Gyles Rickard senio'': taken 

and apprised by Leift: Ephraim Morton serjeant William harlow; the 

sixt of february 1684 as followeth: 

/. s. a. 

Imps: a house and orchyard and Barne 30-00-00 

It 9 or 10 acrees more or lesse of upland lying on (Katancateest) Hill in the 

township of Plymouth 10-00-00 

Item 2 acrees of upland and an acree and half of marsh meddow lying on 

the northerly syde of Wellingsley brook 10-00-00 

Item 18 acrees of upland more or lesse lying above the Little Towne soe called 09-00-00 
Item fifty acrees of upland and six acrees of meddow lying att (hannasnoo- 

pett) in Plymouth township 16-00-00 

Item fifty acrees and 13 and an halfe of meadow att Winntucksett in the 

township of Plymouth 30-00-00 

Item six acrees of meddow more or lesse, Lying at a place called Sparrows 

Meddow 06-00-00 

Item his wearing apparell; shirts shoes and stockens and hatt .... 00-10-00 

Item 2 bibles a salme book with other sniale books 01-05-00 

Item 3 Cowes and a yeer old heifFer 09-00-00 

Item a swine 00-05-00 



so THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

in the midle Rome /. s. d. 

Item feather bed and bolster two pillowes a paire of blankets a wosted Rugg 09-10-00 
Item another feather bed and bolster and three pillowes and a paire of old 

blanketts & an old Coverlid 04-05-00 

Item a feather bed in the Chamber, a bolster & 2 pillowes and a paire of . . . 

Rugge 04-01-00 

Item another ... in the Chamber & a flock bolster and a Coverlid and one 

old blankett . . . things 03-15-00 

Item seven pewter pans 05-00-00 

Item 4 paire of pillowbearcs 00-08-00 

Item 3 table cloathes 00-16-00 

Item 2 dosen of napkins 00-10-00 

Item 5 yards of homespoon woolen 00-15-00 

Item 2 yards & 3 quarters of home spun Cotton Cloth 00-05-06 

Item 5 pound of Cotton woole 00-05-00 

Item I bed & a bedstead in the Chamber and Vallence Curtaine and matt 02-00-00 

Item a trundle bedstead & Cord and matte 00-06-00 

Item a . . . Table in the Chamber & two . . . Chests 00-10-00 

Item in the Garrett two bedsteds 2 Cords 2 matts 00-12-00 

Item old Caske in the Garrett 00-01-00 

Item I wrought pewter platter 00-05-00 

Item 12 peses of pewter 01-00-00 

Item 3 Saucers 00-03-00 

Item a psell of smale pewter att 00-08-00 

Item pewter potts & one . . . pott & two pewter Candlesticks . . . 00-13-00 

Item 2 brase Candlesticks and an Iron Candlesticke 00-06-00 

[Note. This inventory was written on the back of two pages of a 
sermon, as certain words and phrases show; but there is nothing to 
show the author or to give any clue to its date or subject. The 
signatures of the appraisers have been worn or torn off.] 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF RICHARD WILLIS 

[This is a torn page containing broken fragments of the inventory 
of "Richard Wilis," dated "January, 1678"; so torn that only disconnected 
phrases and figures are left.] 



BOND OF HOSEA JOYCE AND ANTHONY THACHER 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee hosea Joyce of the towne 
of Yarmouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England planter and 
Anthony Thacher of the towne aforsaid in the Jurisdiction aforsaid yeo- 
men doe acknowlidg our selves to be bound and firmly obliged unto 
the Gov'': and Court of Plymouth in the sume of three hundred pounds 
for the payment whereof well and truely to b made we bind our selves 
our heires executors and adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 51 

by these p''sents sealed and given this sixt day of March Ann°: Dom: 
one thousand six hundred and sixty six 

The Condition of the abovewritten obUgation is such that Wheras 
the above bounden hosea Joyce hath obtained letters of Adminestration 
to adminester on the estate of nV John Joyce deceased, if therefore the 
said hosea Joyce shall and doe pay all just debts and legacyes as are 
due from the said Estate and keep and save harmles the Gov"" and Court 
abovesaid from time to time and at all times from such damages as may 
accrew unto them by his said Adminestration and be Reddy to give a 
true and Just account thereof unto the said Court when thereunto Required 
that then the said obligation to be void and of none effect or otherwise 
to Remaine in full force and vertue. 



Signed Sealed 












and delivered in the 












p''sence of 








hosea Joyce 


(Seal) 


of 












the marke X John 








Antony 




Smith 








Thacher 


(Seal) 


Thomas savory 












[See inventory three 


pages 


aheadj 







INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF GEORGE BARLOW 

The inventory of the estate of Georg Barlow deceased taken 

this 24 of October 1684 /. s. d. 

a house at 02-00-00 

3 Swine 00-12-00 

2 mares 02-00-00 

1 Kowe 02-00-00 

Plowirons 00-06-00 

tooles 00-06-00 

2 chaines 00-08-00 

2 Kettles ... 01-00-00 

2 sickles 03-00-00 

Ring duble hooks 00-00-06 

a staple and hook 00-00-03 

I hinge for a doore 00-02-03 

4 pailes and kags 00-02-03 

1 Sith 00-02-06 

2 hook Rings and wedges for siths 00-01-03 

Chests 00-03-00 

I barkell 00-01-06 

I saddle 00-15-00 

I gun 00-15-00 

1 Cod 00-02-10 

2 pichforks 00-01-06 



52 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

1 paire yoke hooks and li angers 00-03-00 

2 oxen 07-00-00 

3 Kows 06-00-00 

8 acres upland and half 10-00-00 

13 calves 00-15-00 

1 bed I bedstead 2 pillow bceres sheets blankets with all belonging to the bed 00-06-00 

2 pewter dishes 00-06-00 

I coat I wascoat briches drawcs 00-12-00 

I glas bottle, 3 trays, i staple and ring.i how 00-06-00 

1 frying panne, one bedstead with cord & matt, 2 axes 00-07-00 

2 hats, 2 baggs, 3 old chaires and one new chaire 00-07-06 

I paire spectackles, 2 books and brush 00-08-00 

Thomas Tupper 
John blackwell 

John Barlow and Nathan Barlow made oath to the truth of this 
Inventory in the Court October 31st 1684 

Daniel Smith 
Asist: 

DEPOSITION OF JOSIAH TORREY 

This deponent being Subpenied, thestifieth that I being at the 
house of Richard Standlick of Sittuate upon the Last day of march last 
past I heard the wife of Richard Standlick say to Robert the negro Just 
as he was agoing out of the house that she would not have him shoot of 
his gun in the house and he said that he would ... in a short time 
after I heard the noise of the shooting of a gun as I judged neare or at 
the door . . . the abovesaid house and mediately I heard D . . . Stand- 
lick (as I judged by his voice) cry out and say he hath broke my leg 
and a little time after I saw that Daniel Standlicks leg was broke and the 
Satterday following I saw Doctor Cutler cut of his leg. 
The oath of Josiah Torry aged 25 yeres or 
there abouts taken this 27 day June 1684 

before me John Cushing 
By order of Court 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN JOYCE 

An Invoyce of the goods Cattle and Estate of John Joyce de- 
ceased taken and apprised the 18'^'' day of the la*^"^ month 1666 by us 
whose [names] arc underwritten/. 
W*''in doores /. s. d. 

Imp: one mare & one horse 12-00-00 

it ffourc Oxen two steeres & seaven Coues 49-00-00 

It two bulls one heifer & 12 younger cattle 32-00-00 

Seaven calves & 8 swine great and smale 09-05-00 

In stales of Bees 01-05-00 



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THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 53 

/. s. d. 

In Cart & weeles ploughchaines & other plough harnis 03-00-00 

In 3000 of Boards 10-10-00 

In wheate Rie & pease unthraslit 02-10-00 

In wheate mault Rie & oats clensed 04-00-00 

In Indian Corne 09-00-00 

In pitchforks hoes pickaxes spades shovclls & such like 02-00-00 

In sithes wedges beetle-rings axes & other tooles 03-0S-06 

In the house 

In 3 guns bandoleers & swordes 03-08-00 

In kettles and other brasse vessells 05-10-00 

In Pewter and Latten ware 03-03-00 

In a case of empty bottles & earthen dishes 00-09-00 

In firepan, tongues, hangers spit, crookes, griddle frying panne lampe & 

other iron lumber 01-04-00 

In two iron potts a kettle & skillett 01-10-00 

In a chamber 

In Bee potts baskets & sives 01-03-00 

In bridles saddl & pannell 01-06-00 

In Cotton wollen cloth; 03-16-00 

In sickles & reape hoocks knives spectacles spurts & y'^ like 00-08-00 

In flax nailes & other iron cow-bells & hitchells 01-15-00 

In butter churnes, pailes, kinnells, traies, cheesefatts & other such lumber . 01-14-00 

In Barrclls tubs firkins & such like lumber 00-18-00 

In the Halle 

In chaircs and stooles 00-14-00 

In Table board and forme 00-12-00 

In spinning wheeles & cards 00-12-00 

In a winnowing sheete & baggs 00-15-00 

In wool and flax & in linnen yearne 01-12-00 

In woolen cloth and searge 02-12-00 

In his wearing apparell linen & woolen 12-00-00 

In bookes 01-00-00 

In his bed and furniture to it 08-00-00 

In two beds more w"^ blanketts ruggs & furniture 10-10-00 

In 7 sheetes 7 pillow ties & table linnen 05-00-00 

In powder & bulletts &c- 00-08-00 

In chests & a boxe . . . • 00-16-00 

In two brakes for flax salt brushes glasses bellowes & sundry other things not 

worth naming 01-00-00 

In a Grind-stone & tackle wit 00-15-00 

In a canoo basse line and hoocks 02-12-00 

In Beefc cheese & other pvisions 05-00-00 

In Tobaco 01-00-00 

In debts due about 08-00-00 

In mony about 04-00-00 

In some other lumber not worth naming 00-10-00 

A r-ni , 232-01-00 

Antony 1 hacher 

Richard Taylo"' 

JohnlMiller 



54 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

BOND OF GRACE AND SAMUEL SMITH 

Know all men by these p''scnts that wee Grace Smith & Samuell 
Smith both of the town of Eastham in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth 
in New England and Jabez Snow and Josiah Myrick of the town and 
Jurisdiction afore s : doe Acknowledge our selves hereby to stand bound 
and firmly oblidged unto the Gov'', and Court of Plimouth Aforesd in the 
penal sum of one hundred pounds for the payment whereof well & truely 
to be made we bind our selves our heires Executors & Administrators 
Jointly & Severally firmly by these p''sents: sealed & Given this second 
day of november 1685 

The Condition of this Above mentioned obligation is such that where- 
as the Above bounden Grace Smith & Samuel Smith: hath obtained letters 
of Administration to Administer on the goods and Chattells of Ralph 
Smith deceased: If hereby the said Grace Smith & Samuel Smith shall 
and doe pay all such debts as were due and owing unto Any from the 
said estate as far as y^ estate will extend: & keep a due accompt of their 
Administration & be Ready to Give in & Acompt thereof unto the said 
Court when by them Required: & save & keep harmless & undamnified 
the said Gov'' & Court from Any damage that may Accrew unto them 
or Any of them by their said Administration: that then the Above written 
obligation to be voyde & of none efect or otherwise Remaine in full force 
strength & virtue — witnes our hands and sells the day and yeare above riten. 

Samuel Smith (Seal) 

Beniamin higgins Jabez Snow (Seal) 

John ffreeman juner Josiah Myrick (Seal) 

The mark of X Grace 
(Seal) Smith 



BOND OF ELIZABETH SHERTLIFFE 

Know all men by these p'"sents that wee Elizabeth Shertliff of 
the Towne of Marshfcild in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth widdow 
and Thomas Lettice of the Towne of Plymouth in the Jurisdiction Afor- 
said Carpenter doe acknowledge our selves to bee bound and feirmly 
oblidged unto the Gov"" and Court of New Plymouth aforesaid in the 
Just sume of fourscore pounds, for the payment of which well and truely 
to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors and Adminestrators 
Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p''sents; sealled and given this 
third day of July 1666. 

The Condition of the Above-written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Elizabeth Shurtliffe hath obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to adminestcr on the estate of William Shurtliffe of Marshfeild 









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BOND OF SAMUEL LATHROP, THOMAS SNF,LL AND SAMUEL ALLEN 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 55 

in the Jurisdiction aforsaid late deceased if tlierefore the said Elizabeth 
Shurtliffe shall and doe pay all such debtes as the said William Shurtliffe 
owed unto any att the time of his fecease soe farr and by equall propor- 
tions as his estate will amount unto; and that shee doe keep a faire account 
of her said Adminestration and bee Redy to give it in unto the said Court 
when shee shelbee therunto Required by it; & that shee her heires exec- 
utors & adminestrators shall and doe from time to time and att all times 
save and keep harmles the said Gov'' and Court from all or any damage 
that may acrew unto them; or either of them by her said Adminestration 
that then this obligation to bee void and of none effect or otherwise to 
Remaine in full force and vertue 

Signed Sealed and (Seal) 

delivered in the p^'sence of Lettice 

Thomas Littell Thomas his (Seal) 

Samuel Nash marke X 



BOND OF SAMUEL LATHROP, THOMAS SNELL AND 
SAMUEL ALLEN 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Samuell Lathrop: 
Thomas Snell & Samuel Allen: all of the town of Bridgwater in the Colony 
of New Plimouth in New England: Doe Acknowledge our selves to be 
bound & firmely oblidged unto the Gove""; & Court of plimouth aforsd 
in the peanall sum of one hundred pound sterling: for the payment thereof 
to be well & truly made wee bind our selves our heires, Executo^ & 
Administrators Jointly & severally: firmely sealed & given this: fourth 
day of march 168^ . . . 

The Condition of this above obligation is such that whereas the 
Above named Samuell Lathrop have obtained Administration: to administer 
on the Estate of: Marke Lathrop of the town of Bridgwater in the Colony 
Abovesd Deceased: Therefore If the Abovsd Samuell Lathrop shall & doe 
keep a due Account of his Administration: & be in Readiness to Give 
in a true Account thereof: to the Gover"" & Court of plimouth Aforsd: 
& save & keep harmles & undamnified the sd Gover"". & Court from time 
to time & att all times from any Damage that may accrew to them: or 
any of them by the sd Samuell Lathropp his sd Administration: that 
then the Above obligation to be void & of none Effect) or otherwise To 
Remaine in full force & virtue. . . 

Signed Sealed & Delivered the marke of 

In p''sence of — Samuell x : Lathrop (Seal) 

John Cushing " Samuell Allen (Seal) 

Samuell Clap the marke of 

Thomas X Snell (Seal) 



56 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

WILL OF JOHN BARNES 

New Plimoulh 

6''' of March, toI 
New E',ngland 

The Last will 6c Testament of John Barn's 

which is as flFollows. 

To All whome these may concern. (Know you That I John Barn's 
(being of my Sound Understandinge: doe declai'''^ This to be my Last 
will and Testament. Knowing not how soon y*^ lord may call me out of 
this world, doe theirfore Labo'' to give noe occasio" of strife unto those 
that shall survive me. But that peace may be Among them. i. hi 
the first place I doe desire that my body; be decently buryed (and) 
that Funerall charges to be Expended out of my psonall Estate. - 

2. That all Legacys be payd . before any division of my estate be mayd.- 

3. I doe apoyn* y*^ my dear wife Joan Barn's & my son Jonathan Barn's 
be y^ Execto" of this my Last will and Testament. — 4. I doe Bequeath 
unto my wife Joan Barn's half of Every pt. and pcell of my housing and 
Lands y* I doe now psess in y^ Township of New Plimoth dureing The 
Tearmc of her life. — 5. I doe bequeath unto my sonn unto my sonn 
Jonathan the other half part of my above said housing Lands &;c. unless 
my sayd Sonn shall forfitt it on condittions as foUow's in an oy'' p' of 
this my will. -6. I doe bequeath all my Land lying Near to Road Island 
unto my grand-Sonn John Marshall, as also y^ silver dish y^ I doe usually 
use to Eat in. - 7. I doe bequeath to my Cozen y^ wife of henery Samso" 
forty shilling's out of my Estate to be payd Beffore division of my Estatc.- 
8. I doe Bequeath my moveable Estate as follow's one third to my wife 
for ever in Case she shall not molest any pson to whome I hav^e fformerly 
sould any Lands unto in Case she shall so doe, y" it shall fall to my Sonn 
or grandson John Marshall, y^ Next third I doe bequeath to my Sonn 
Jonathan In Case he doe not demand any pt of That Estate y*^ fformerly 
I gave to my daughter Lyddyah: Now deceased, in case he shall Soe doe 
y*^ third shall fall unto m)- grandson John Marshall ffor ever. The Next 
third I doe bequeath to my grandchildren now in being togeither w'^'' 
my Kinswoman Ester Ricket to pay to each of y"" an Equall p* of y' 
my Estate, hoping That my Last will may be an instrument of peace; 
shall cease waiting for y^ Time of my chang. -9. I doe Further Request 
and desire Elder Thomas Couchma L^ Ephraim Morton and Joseph 
Warren to be the overseers of this my Last will and Testament 

Signed and Sealed In his mark 

y^ p''sencc of John X Barnes 

georgc Soulc Sen'': (Seal) 

Sam': Seaburij 

Samuell hunt 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

This Will is Recorded according to 
order p me Nathaniel Morton Secretary- 
see book of Wills and Inventoryes 
Recorded beginning att 71; in folio 31 



57 



BOND OF SARAH HATCH 

Know all men by these p''sents y*^ We Sarah Hach of Sittuate 
widow as principall &; Israel Cudworth of Sittuate as surety stand hereby 
bound & firmly obliged by Recognizance unto the Gov"". & Court of New 
Plimouth in the p,enall sum of one hundred & twelve pounds Currant 
money of New Eland sealed with our seals dated the 3'' day of June 
1686. 

The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above named 
Sarah Hach adminestratrix of the estate of Thoma Hach late of Sittuate 
deceased shall & doe well & truly adminester upon the s"^ Estate according 
to law & be in Readiness to give account thereof when by the Court she 
shall be Called thereunto. That then this Recognizance to be void & 
of Non Effect otherwise to be of full force & binding. 



Signed Sealed & delivered 
in p''sence 

Nathaniel Thomas 

Thomas X Bourn, 
his marke 



Sarah hach X 
her mark 

Israel Cudworth 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM BASSET^F 

May the 12 anno, domini 

1667: 

An Inventory taken of the moveable goods of William Bassett of 

Bridg\\'ater deceased. , , 

It a payr billowes i-io-oo 

It an anvill 3-00-00 

It a vice 2-10-00 

It the tongs hammers beckhorne i-io-oo 

It al the rest of Small shopp Tools 4-00-00 

It Answorth on 5 books moses 1-06-00 

It Ursiuns o-io-oo 

It more to books o-io-oo 

It a comentary on romans o-io-oo 

It a concordance 0-16-06 



58 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. /. d. 

It a commentary 0-12-00 

Wilson on the romans o-io-oo 

Mayer on on 4 evangelists o-io-oo 

Rogers his seven treteses 0-08-00 

Haris on the beatituds ... 0-07-00 

wilsons dixsonary 0-08-00 

Knights concordance 0-08-00 

Mayers exposition on difficultys of 0-05-00 

to small books against prelassy 0-04-00 

weemses explanation of ceremonial law : . 0-07-00 

dike on dcceitfulncss of the hart .... 0-03-00 

m"^ Robinsons observations ... 0-02-06 

a tretise of precious faith 0-02-00 

a parcel of small books 0-08-00 

a mare and colt 6-00-00 

3 cowes 10-10-00 

to steers 07-00-00 

one Heifer and a steer 05-00-00 

Three yearlings 03-05-00 

a sow & seven shots 04-05-00 

A rugg and fether bed & bolsters and sheets 06-00-00 

mor and other smal fether bed boster & covering 02-05-00 

more another rugg and fether bed and bolster sheets and pillowes . . . 05-10-00 

to pillowes to blankets 00-15-00 

a parccll of flax 01-05-00 

cotton yarne 02-00-00 

cotton woole 00-08-00 

smal parcell yarn 00-07-00 

9 pound of sheeps wool 00-09-00 

corne 18 bushels 02-14-00 

an oxe hide 00-18-00 

to bushels of malt 00-08-00 

three baggs 00-oS-oo 

On sadle & bridle & sadle cloth & girts 01-10-00 

a panel ... & girt 00-07-00 

a cart rope & halter 00-05-00 

a horse harnes 00-04-00 

Cow bels . 00-03-00 

nails 00-15-00 

to payr of scales 00-08-00 

old hogsheeds & tubs 00-04-00 

84-11-00 



CONTINUANCE OF THE ABOVE 

Pewter 2-00-00 

three pots and pot hooks & skillet i -00-00 

Iron mortar pot hangers Smothing Iron tongs and fier shovel and spit . 0-14-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 59 

/. s. d. 

a candelstick & gridiron & fram of skillet 0-09-00 

howes and axes 0-15-00 

Plow Irons & chaincs rop ring & staple 1-18-00 

Cart & wheels 1-02-00 

four guns 3-05-00 

four forks & tu rakes a spade & tu shovels 0-09-00 

three weges & a whell and wheelbarrow 0-10-06 

a parcell of hemp and tu braks 0-17-00 

a grindstone w* his Iron hanging 0-18-00 

traycs a smal ketle & barrels & tubs 1-16-00 

a Cheese press sives & sifting troughs payls and half bushcU & winding blades 

& hunk 0-17-06 

in mony o-ii-oo 

powder bullets & home & hemp hichcl 0-12-00 

a cutlesse warming pan & frying pan ... i-oo-oo 

A suite & cloake 5-00-00 

more one suite 1-12-00 

another suit & cloak 2-10-00 

a troopers coat & doblet 1-03-00 

old cloathes and stockens 1-05-00 

foure shirts i-oo-oo 

apeice of stufe 5-00-00 

gloves caps and bands & neckcloths 0-15-00 

pillow beers napkins old linen o-io-oo 

shewes & hats & a carpet 1-04-00 

cheasts chaires and table i-oo-oo 

a parcell of books i-oo-oo 

to Thwart sawes agers steeles sithes sneads i-oo-oo 

ropes & baskets 0-02-00 

some small triviall things happyly forgotten 0-05-00 

The Inventory made by William Brett 

John Willis 

Mary y* reUct of the boves'^ William Bassett tooke oath this 25 of 
May (67) before me Tho' Hinckley Asst. 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF RICHARD FOXSWELL 

The estate of Richard ffoxwell deceased 

/ s. d. 

In wearing Cloathes 45^ 2-5-0 

In a little flock bedd & beding 2-16- o 

In a bedsteed 8^ 0-8-0 

In pothangers Tongs bellowes & old sword 0-6-0 

In brasse & pewter il^ 0-12- 6 

In a p old shoese & an Iron 0-1-6 

In a Litle old chest 0-2-0 

In an old Chayre & som other old lumber 0-5-0 

In three chattells (Cowkind)- 8- o- o 



6o THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

In about 6 Acres of Land & a sorry house 7-0-0 

In about i Acre & K of land & about 3 Acres of marsh 5-0-0 

In books 2^ 6''- 02-6 



26-18- 6 

This3o"'of may 1668 prised by us in some &civirillthingse omitted . . 0-2-0 

Henry Cob 

The: Huckins 

/. s. d. 
more two old Caps & an old knife ^ 09-01-06 

more in howshold stuff in the possessio 
of william Nelson estimated to be neare 
about y^ vallue of the howselstuff 
above mentioned w^** is mutually agreable 
to be his pte thereof according to y^ will of 
the bovesd Richard ffoxwell. 
Sam' Bacon deposed to this Inventory 
17 June (68) before me Tho: Hinckley. 

This Inventory is Recorded 
According to order p me Nathaniell 
Morton Secretary to the Jurisdiction 
of New Plymouth 



ATTACHMENT OF ESTATE OF THOMAS LASSELL 

To the Constables of Plimouth or Either of them Greeting 
Whereas Nathaniel Southworth of Plimouth Complaineth against Thomas 
Lassell of Plimouth afores*^ in an action of debt to the damage of seven 
pounds, for non payment of a debt of three pound thirteene shillings 
and six pence due to the said Southworth by Booke as he saith he will 
make appear: & which the forM Thomas Lassell unjustly detaineth: 

These are therfore in his majesties name to requier you on receipt 
hereof to Attach the estate to full value and for want thereof the body 
of the s^ Thomas Lassell & take sufficient security for his appearance at 
the County Court to be hoJden at Plimouth the third Tuesday in march 
next to answer this said Complaint & to be forth Coming six days after 
judgment given in the ?.^ Case to Respond the judgment hereof fail not & 
make a true Return hereof and doings hereupon to the s"^ Court — Dated 
at Plimouth September y= 28*''; 1689 

p'' Curiam Sam' Sprague Clerk 
27 november 1689 

I have attached the body of thomas lasel and have taken sofisent 

Security Willam Shurtlef Cunstabel 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 6i 
JOHN BRADFORD'S ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES 

An Acount of the Charges that I was oute in the Attending 

at severall Courts in Boston in reference to Answer m"' Nathanel Clarke 
aboute Clarke Island. 

Imp In July terme held att Boston 1688 I. s. d. 

To ffarwell the clarke ... 0-4-6 

To King the Aturny 2-0-0 

To Newton the Aturny i-io- o 

for my owne time at that Court for foure days o-io- o 

In mony spent then for charges 0-9-0 

In October Terme held att Boston 1688 for eight days i- o- o 

for my expenses then ' 1-4-0 

In January 1689 att the Terme held there in Boston for my time and Charges 

foure days o-io- o 

for my expenses that j was att there 0-9-0 

for other Charges and Troubles heare att home 0-12-0 

to farwel the Clarke 0-4-6 

John Bradford 



TESTIMONY OF JAMES CLARKE 

The testmony of James Clarke aged 51 or there abouts testefieth 
and saith that when the Constable Came to attach the wh ... I was 
att my son thomas Clarke when he Came & he warned me to goe with 
him to the staber & we found two per a little distant one from another 
and then we found the Rutt of the wheles most a quarter of a mile where 
we found another parcell they said was two load and Robert bartlett 
Carried a load to his fathers house 

James Clarke made oath in Court to what is above written march 



20 



th 1869. 



Attest Sam Sprague Clerk 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF RICHARD BULLOCKE, REHOBOTH 

The Inventory of Richard Bullucke made & apprized the 22''' of 
November in the yeer 1667. 

/. s. d. 

Imprimis: his wearing apparel! :2''^-io^ 02-10-00 

It his wearing Linning; & three sheets & some small remnants of linning 

Cloth and fower pillow beers: 03-00-0 ~ 

It one bed and bolster and two pillows 4'"^; 10^ 04-10-00 

It one bed Rugg and a cradle Rugg i'*^- lo"" 01-10-00 

It two blankets i'': one Blankett is'' 01-15-00 

It one Remnant of Linning cloth 3^ 9*^ 00-03-09 



62 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

It twelve pound of Gotten yarne I'^-io' oi-io-oo 

It Gotten wool & sheeps wool ; & flax and hose yarne 01-15-00 

. . . spinning wheels and 00-10-00 

00-03-00 

. . . Books . . . Iron Scillett . . . Iron kettle 02-13-00 

It two Brasse scelletts and one Brassc kittle i'** - 15 01-15-00 

It a pewter . . . spoonc i'** - 10* 01-1000 

It earthen potts and platters & two stonning Juggs 00-06-00 

It two Ghests one trunkc three boxes, 16* 00-16-00 

It one Gradle and some old Ghaycrs 12* 00-12-00 

It fire pan & tongcs with frying pan & rostiron & two hakes .... 00-16-00 

It three axes & fowcr old sickles & one hammer & 2 old howes . 00-15-00 

It Amies & ammunition 1*^-7^ 01-15-00 

It plow share & coulter & 2 small horses chaynes: & a horse coUer . 00-12-00 

It Broken chaynes 10* — Dayry vessels; with bere barrel & Lumber 02-00-00 

It other utenscls 00-04-00 

It provisions for the winter : etc 

It old wheels with Irons 01-00-00 

It Indian corne 40 bushels, 5'** 

It. Rye in the straw i" - 10' - 01-10-00 

It. Hay 14 Loads : and two accres of Rye on y* ground 

It. 2 yerclings 2 '■* two steers and one heifer 9'' 11-00-00 

It. one house 6'' ... 6 Gowcs 12''* 

. . . Gorne 4" 

. . . Beetle rings & wedges two 

. . . owing from Richard Bullock 23 li 

Total! 

p The: Cooper senior 
Henrv Smith 



SUIT OF JOHN WILLIAMS vs. NATHANIEL WARREN 

To the constables of sitewate or either of them greeting &c. 

Whareas Capl John williames of sittewate Complaineth that some- 
time sense or about the beginning of August last he hath had feloniously 
taken away from him out of his Chist and house sartaine wrighting under 
the hand of John Bright Containeng many Covinants; in It Relating to 
a farme and Catlc hired bi the s'^ John Bright of the s*^ williames and 
allso that he hath had a great quantety of sheeps wool taken from him 
out of his house in a felonious maner to his great los and damage — and 
that he hath vehement sospition that the s'^ John Bright hath feloniously 
taken or procured to be feloniously taken away the said wrightings and 
s*^ shcps wool: These arc therefore In his maiesteys name william and 
mary king and quene of england, to will and Require yow or either of yow 
forth with on site jeare of to aprehend the s'* John Bright and bring him 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 63 

before me or some one of the maiistrets of this government to Be farder 
proseded withall according to law as the mater on the hearing of It may 
apeare Rite and Just and that yow warn Calt williames theare to apears 
allso when yow Bring y*^ s'^ Bright and that yow Bring this writ with yow 
and attend such farder order as shall be given yow from s'^ maiestrate 
at yower perill. and allso that yow warne hannah witherill mary sproute 
anne sproute and Capt Williames two Indian sarvents to apere with s'^ 
Bright before some maiestrate to give evidence In the premises so far as 
they know according to truth viz the Indians mentioned are will and gorge 

Dated at plimouth p me William Bradford 

II day of Sept 1689 Dept Gov"" 

To the Constable of midleBery greeting 

Whereas John Williames of Sitewate in the Countey of plimouth 
Complaineth against nathaniell warrin of Midle Bery In the County 
afores'^ In an action on the Case to the damage of Seventy pounds in 
Corant lawfull money of new england for that The s'^ John waren doth 
neglect or Refuse To pay unto the s'^ John williames the some of Thirtey 
and five pounds in sillver money dew from the s'^ warin unto him the s'^ 
williames for five years Rent as may more fully appere in a lease given 
under the hand and sealle of the s*^ Nathanael waren which s Lease 
bareth Date the seventeents day of January one thousand six hundred 
eighty three These are thearefore In their majestys name to will and 
Requier you forthwith on Receipt hear of to atach the sartin estate of 
him the s^ nathaniell warin to a safitiant valew and for want thereof that 
you attach the body of him the s'^ warin and him or them that you safely 
secure and prosede with all according to law so as to be forthcoming at 
their maiesties County Cort to be holden at plimoth on the third tuesday 
of march next than and theare to anser the Complaint and Respond the 
action hear of faile you not and make toward timly Return of your warant 
and doings hear in to s'^ Corte dated situate 28 november 1689 

per me John Cushing 

Assistant 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF THOMAS . . . 

The Estate of Thoma[s] [Huckins] . . . allued 31: may 1667. 

/. s. d. 

In powder 2'' 4^ Candle sticks ; a smoothinglron & grater 6^ .... 2-10- o 

in brass 25*^ . an Iron pott 8^ in Lining, sheetcs &c. .5^ 4-09- o 

in beds & beding 9" 2^ an old hatt 2^ 9-04- o 

in three Chests 14^- 3 barrells 7^ a Tray 2^ 1-03- o 

in 2 bags 5''. pothangers.pothokes & Tongs & frying pan 17^ .... 1-02- o 

in wooll 2^- 6^ . 2 small curtains 5^ 0-07- 6 



64 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

in 2 bcdsteds & Cords 15'. in Toolcs 7'- 1-02- o 

in planes 16^ . a cushin 2^ 0-18-0 

2 Cowes 6"- 10' . 3 shotts if. 7-05- o 

in old tubs & Lumber 15* 0-15- o 

28-15- 6 
by us The: Huckins 

william Crocker 



TESTIMONY OF NATHANIEL WINSLOW, SAMUEL LITTLE 

the testimony of nathaniel winslow aged fifty yeares or there- 
abouts & of Samuel Little aged thirty three years or thear abouts 
these Deponents testify & say that we being at Boston att the superior 
court there held on July 31 1688 we heard then and there read a writt 
of Ejection in which John Doe complains of Richard Roe: we also testify 
that John Bradford then and there appeared as Defendant in that action 
for Richard Roe above named Also weesaw John Bradford againe appeare 
att Boston at the next Superior court there held on October 30 1688 and 
heard him declare he then expected to be called to answerto the writ 
abovesaid we said deponents doe further testify that on the next superior 
court held at Boston January 29: lesg wee then and there saw the said 
Bradford at Boston and heard him then declare that his only businesse 
to that court was to Answer the writt of Ejection above mentioned and 
further saith not 

Sworn in Court march y^ 18^^ -55 by the persons above named viz^ 
Nath" Winslow and Sam Little 

Attest Sam' Sprague 
Clerk 



KENELME BAKER AND NATHANIEL WINSLOW, JR. 

Kenelme Baker aged 31 years or there abouts [&] Nath" winslow jun*" 
aged about 22 years testifis & saith that Nathaniell Winslow Sen"": did 
agree with me to carry wood from the Hand which he the s^ winslow had 
hired of m"" Joseph howland og plimouth. & his son was to go with me: 
and Nathaniell Clark having made such observation to s'^ winslow as I 
was informed Caused me to desist the Carieng of s^ winslows wood 

The joint Testemony of Kenelm Baker and Nath" winslow jun'' 

!-••/'> 1 th 1689 

Sworn m Court march ig"' ^5 

Attest Sam' Sprague Clerk 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 65 

JOHN RIDER 

The Testemony of John Rider aged 26 yeares or there abouts Teste- 
fieth and saith that y*^ Whale in Controversy Came on Shoare agains a 
pastur fence belonging to James and Tho: Clarke and further saith not 

John Rider aboves'^ made Oath in Court march 20'^'' ^ to what 
is above written 

Attest Sam' Sprague Clerk 



DEED OF FRANCIS COMBE TO EDWARD GRAYE 

To all to whome these p''sents shall Conme Francis Combe of 
newplimouth in Newengland in America Yeoman sendeth Greeting/ 
Knowe yee that the said flfrancis Combe for and in Consideration of 
Ninty five pounds Sterling unto me in hand payd by Edward Graye of 
the towne Affores'' wher with I do Acknowlidge myselfe to be fully satis- 
ffide Contented and payd and thereof and of every part and percell thereof 
doe Acquit Exonerate and discharge the said Edward Graye his heires 
Executors and administrators and Every of them ffor ever: By these p''sents 
Have ffreely and Absolutely bargained and sold Alinated enfeofed and 
Confirmed. And by these p''sents doe bargaine sell AUinate Enfeofe and 
Confirme ifro me the Afforesaid ffrancis Comb and my heires unto the 
said Edward Gray his heires and Assignes ffor ever; that my now Dwelling 
house and Land being About thirty Acres with the Enlargments; out 
housing; orchards; ffences and w^soever is ther uppon or belongeth there- 
unto; Situated Lying and being within the township of Plymouth Affore- 
said nere unto rockie nook; and to a place formerly Called Winslowes 
Stand; and is Betwixt the Lands now of Edward Gray and Jacob Cooke; 
Bounded on the South side with y^ Land of the Afforesaid Edward Gray 
and on y* North side ffrom the seaside to the Comon roadway with two 
stones Pitch in to ground w'^'' are the bounds be twixt the said land and 
A way that is to goe into the Afforesd nooke; And on the westward side 
of the Afforesd Cuntry road the said Land is Bounded with A Stake 
and heape of stones; ffro y* land of Jacob cooke and ffro the said heape 
of Stones the Line runneth nerist west Southwest unto the walnut trees 
Marked and standing on y^ north side of A hill on y^ Southwest side of 
the Smelt Brooke wch is y^ head Bounds of y*^ said Lot and from these 
two walnut trees the Line Extends to A white oake standinge on the 
South West side of A Red Swampe Expecting that the Line shall not 
Crose the Lots of Samuell Fuller at the head of this Addition; with all 
my Right Title and Interest into a lot or portion of Land Granted to 
my ffather m"' John Combe by the Towne of Plymouth Afforesaid uppon 
the thirtieth day of December one thousand six hundred iforty and one; 



66 THE PLYAlOUTil SCRAP BOOK 

Also four Acorcs of ffresh meadow wch I bought of y^ Afforesd Edward 
Gray ; wch Lyeth uppon A brook that Runneth into Jones River & is 
next above Steven Briants meadow Being Bounded with A red oak and a 
Spruce tree as may Appeare uppon Record Dated the twenty fourth 
maye Sixteene Hundred Sixty one ; Also fifty Accres of upland granted 
unto me the ffoure and twentieth day of Maye one thousand Six hundred 
and Sixty By the towne of Plymouth AflForesd Lying and being nerc the 
said Meadow Bounded as followeth viz with a great red oake tree at the 
wading place; from y^ said Tree y*^ Line runneth thorough a little Swamp 
to A white oake tree by the Swamp so to Another White oake marked 
on foure sides; from thence Running to the West-ward Corner to A red 
oake & through the Afforsd Swamp to A white oake marked on four sides 
and fro thence to a red oak on the western side and so to my meadow 
to a red oake marked as is Recorded; And foure Accres off Meadow 
granted unto mee by the Towne of Plymouth Afforesaid the twenty 
seventh day of October one thousand six hundred sixty and two Lying 
next unto on y^ Southerly ... off the Afforesaid ffoure Accresof Meadow, 
with all and singular the Appurtenances and Privilidges therunto belonging; 
And all y^ right title and Interest of and into all and Every of the Affore- 
said premises . . . more the dwelling house and Land that goeth into the 
Afforesaid Nook, and every part and- Persell thereof To Have and to 
Hold the Afforesaid dwelling house and Land with the Addition excepting 
w*^ is excepted . . . right and Interest unto m'' John Combe his grant; 
foure Accres of meadow bought off the said Edward Gray; fifty Accres 
of upland granted by the afforesaid Towne of Plymouth; and foure Accres 
of Meadow granted by the said Towne of Plymouth with y^ Privllidge & 
my right in the Affores'' Nookewaye with all and Every off the Afforesaid 
Bounds Expressed and with all and singtilar the Appurtenantes and Privi- 
lidges to all and ever>' the Afforesaid premises belonging and Every part 
and persell thereoff unto the Afforesaid Edward Graye his heires and assignes 
for ever To be holden as of our Soverayne Lord the Kinge as of his 
manor off East Greenwich in the County of Kent within the realme off 
England in ffree and Comon Soccage and not in Capite nor by Knights 
Servis by the rents and servises thereof and the rent due and of right 
Accostomed To the only p''per use and behooffc of him the said Edward 
Gray his heires and Assignes fforever; And with warranties Against all 
people for ever by these presents fro by or under me the said ffrancis 
Combe my heires Executors and Administrators and every of them 
Claiming any Right Title or Interest in the Afforesaid Premises with ther 
Appurtenances or any part or persell theroff And with Warranties Against 
all People for ever by these presents fro by or under me the said 
ffrancis Combe my heires Executors and Administrators and Every of 
them Claiming and Right Title Interest in to the Afforesaid Premises 
with ther Appurtenances or any part or persall thereoff' And with War- 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 67 

ranties Against all People whatsoever Claiming and Right title or Interest 
off and in Every the Above Mentioned Premises or any part of or per- 
sell therof; And I the said ffrancis Combe doe by these p'sents Authorize 
the s'^ Edward Gray either by himselfe or his Attorney to record and 
enroll these premises or Cause them to be recorded and Enrolled before the 
Governor of Newplymouth or some one off his Assistance for the time 
being According to the usuall Manner of Recording and Enrolling of Deeds 
and Evidences in his Maj'ss Court of Newplymouth Afforcs'^. 

In wittness wheroff I the said ffrancis Combe have hereunto Set to 
my hand this thirty one day off December one thousand six hundred 
sixty and eight 

1668 ffrancis x Combe 

his marke 

Signed Sealed and Delivered ffranes Combe owned (Seal) 

in p''sents off before me that the above 

William harlow wirten is his act and deed 

W™. Crowe the day above writen 

Tho: Southworth Asistant 

This deed is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniell Morton Secretary to the 
Court for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth 
See great book of evidences of lands 
enrolled folio 236/ 



WRIT OF SELECTMEN OF PLYMOUTH 

To the Constables of Plimoiith or either of them Greeting 
Whereas William Harlow Sen'' Nath" Southworth and Joseph Bartlett 
sen'' Select men of the Town of Plimouth and in said Towns behalf Com- 
plain against Sam' Rider and William Harlo jun"" in an action on the 
case to the damage of sixty pounds in money for that the said Samuel 
Ryder and William Harlow jun"' have on or about the 7'"^ day of this 
Instant January unjustly and in a Clandestine maner entered upon and 
taken into their possession & endever'' to appropriate to their owne use 
a Certain Drift whale cast on shoar within the bounds of the towne of 
Plimouth afores'' the property whereof p'' law belongs to said town. Where- 
fore you are in their ma^'*^^ name hereby Required without delay to at- 
tach the blubber bone and what els may be of value and pertains to 
said Whale and the same secure and in the most prudent and effectuall 
way preserve that you may or can that the same or value thereof may 



68 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

be Responsible and forth Coming at the next County Court to be holden 
at Plimouth on the third Tuesday in march next to answer s*^ Complaint 
& to be forth coming to sattisfy judgment that shall be given in said 
case; and that you warn the said Rider and William Harlow jun'' to make 
their appearance at s^ Court to answer the said Complaint & make their 
defence in the Case aboves'^ whereof fail you not and make Return of this 
writt & doings hereupon to said Court: 

Dated at Plimouth 

January y'' 8^^ ^fj SS Curiam Sam' Sprague Clcr 

I have atached the blubcr and bone and what els may be of vallew 
pertaining to s^ Whale and y*^ same secured to be forth Coming at demand 
this 8*'' of January 1689 

by me william Shurtlef Cunstabel 
and the men I have warned to apear att y^ County Cort 



DEPOSITION OF THOMAS BUCKE 

I the deponent being sapined doth testiefie that I being at the house 
of John Willyams some time the last -somer past Captin Willyames is 
maide soe reputed brought me some bcare when I called for it and I 
paid them mony for the same 

The oath of thomas bucke aged 35 years or there abouts Taken this 
13 Septem 1690 before mc 

John Cushing Assistant 



GRANDMOTHER HURST'S DEBTS 

/. s. d. 

To y^ finding of her Coinc for six ycre at 20tie shillings p y* yeare is 6-00-00 

To sixs Hoggs in five ycares at 20 shillings p*^ Hogg is 5-00-00 

To y^ Wintering of A Cowe 5 ycare at 16 s p y' yearc 4-00-00 

To y*^ finding of her wood five yeare: at 30tie shillings p ycare is .... 7-10-00 
To 5 yeares washing , Dressing off Dyet & other Trouble ; at lotie siiillings 

p y* yearc is 5-00-00 

27-10-00 
other smale things I doe not Rccon June 26-1688 

June 1670 since 1665 Disbursed Cloth for two shifts 00-14-00 

3 pairc of shoues 00-10-00 

wintering i Cowe two yearc 01-10-00 

wintering i Calfe i ycare 00-10-00 

Cloth for one peticoat 00-09-00 

I yeare & yi diet and tendance 08-00-00 

Some totall is y* sorne off: 39-03-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 69 

ANTHONY COLLIMORE'S ANSWER TO A SUIT 

Anthony Collimore of Scituate his 
Suplem*^ to his Defence touching a paper or pretended sumons &c — 

Imp" If I Entred into a Recognizance I humbly conceive that it was 
(as it ought to be) In his Late Maj*'" name & therefore Cannot be pros- 
ecuted in any other name. 

2' — The Condition of the Recognizance was to bring a writt of habeas 
corpus which I did & itt was allowed: & I appeared to prosecute accord- 
ingly— 

3' — The Condition: Sic': as to the time how many dayes I must 
bring my writt &c'': before the Courte Is altogether needless & Impertinent: 
Because the number of dayes before the Court is not of the Essence of 
y^ obligation For where I am oblidged: to bring such a writt to such a 
Court. I must besure to bring the s'^ writt in die forme & time (according 
to Law) to that Court: so if I be bound in 60'': on Condition to bring a 
writt of habeas Corpus: 15: dayes before such a Court: & the Law did 
Injoine me to bring my s'^ Writt: 20 daj'es: though my bringing my 
writt: 15: dayes will discharge me of my obligation: for whatsoever is 
dissmist or Removed from one Court to another (by bond or without bond) 
due Respect must be had to the Law & Custome more then to the pticu- 
clar time Exprest in the obligation besides 

It is not Consistant but rather Repugnant &; Contrary to Law: for 
whatsoever & whensoever the Law saith such an act or thing must be 
soe: soe then it must be after that manner at that time done: soe where 
the Law saith such a writt must be delivered before the Jury that is to 
try the case) Apere & one of them be sworne, It is Enough to bring it in 
any time that morning before the Jury appear Sec"": & too much to bring 
it in 15 dayes before — Therefore it is provided in the statute 43: Eliz: 5: 
that no writt of habeas corpus Sec' shall be allowed unless it be before 
the Jury — Apear & one of them be sworn any time before Sec"" is suffi- 
cient & soe if our Custome in our Courts in England which I hope is a 
good Example: with the Afores*^ Law for y'' Imitation 

Plimouth: Yo"" humble servant 

March 18': ^ Anthony Colimore 



DEED OF MAJ. JOSIAS WINSLOW TO WILLIAM FORD 

To all people to whom the p''sents shall Com Majo'' Josiah Wins- 
low of Marshfeild in the Jurisdiction of new Plymouth in New England in 
America Gent sendeth Greetinge Know yee that I the aforesayd Josiah 
Winslow for and in Consideration of twenty two pounds and ten shillings 



70 THE PLYAIOUT}! SCRAP BOOK 

sterling to me in hand payd before the sealinge and delivery hereof (accord- 
ing to Covenant by William fford Sen of Marshfeild aforesayd Alillwright 
wherewith I the aforesayd Josiah Winslow doe acknowledge my selfe 
sufficiently sattisfyed & Contented and payd and thereof and of every pt 
and pcell thereof doe exonerate acquit and discharge the abovesayd 
William fford him selfe his heirs executors Administrators and assignes 
forever by these p''sents I the aforesayd Josiah Winslow doe by these 
p''sents acknowledge That on the Third day of April Anno Domini 1657 
I say I the Aforesayd Josiah Winslow did freely and absolutely bargain 
sell enfoflFc and Confirme from me and my heirs to him the sayd William 
fford and his heirs and assigns for ever The one halfe of A Water mill 
standing on the south River in marshfeild aforesayd together with the 
one halfe of two pcclls of land belonging or Appertaininge to the sayd 
mill lying and being in marshfeild aforesayd which sayd mill was Built 
by me the aforesayd Josiah Winslow and the aforesayd William fford 
Jointly: one piece of the aforesayd sold Land is that Whereon the sayd 
IMill standeth Containinge By Estimation six or seven Acres Bee it More 
or Less the Bounds Whereof is from the Little Swamp above the Mill 
which runneth into the Mill pond on the north side of the South River 
and so by the land of Arthur Rowland which he bought of John Thomas 
and Robert Chambers devided by a line Running southeast from that 
Brook and so pointinge on the dwelling house of Timothy Williamson: 
the sayd Southeast Line Endinge on A Little hill Above the house that 
was sometime John Walkers at A white oake marked and from the sayd 
marked oake it runs on A . . . line by a walnut Tree Alarked and so 
downe to the River: the second pcell of the aforesayd sold Land begins 
at the aforesayd Little Brooke and runs upon a Northwest line by Arthur 
Rowlands Land as far as the sayd Arthur Rowlands land doth goe uppon 
the plaine . . . Marshfeild & Duxbury . . . mount scargoe excepted . . . 
out of the swampe and South south west pointing upon A spruce tree which 
standeth nearc to the South River. To Rave and to hold the Other 
sayd halfe Mill mill Dam Aiill streame as also the one halfe of the afore- 
sayd . . . two pcells of Land from mee the aforesayd Josiah Winslow and 
my heires to him the sayd William fford and his heires and assigns forever 
With all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or any 
way appertaininge to the afore bargained p''mises To bee holden of o'' 
soveraign Lord and King as of his manno'' of East Greenwich in free and 
Common Soccagc and not in Cappite nor by Knights Service nor by the 
Rents and Services thereof and thereby due and of right Accustomed. 
And for Warranty of the premises the sayd Josiah Winslow doeth for 
himself his heres executors and administrators further Covenant promise 
and grant to and with the sayd William fford and his heires executors 
and assigns By these p'"sents that the p''miscs now here and hereafter at 
all times and times . . . remaine continue and abide unto the sayd Wil- 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



71 



Ham fFord his heires and assignes Freely acquitted exonerated and dis- 
charged or other^vise from time to time and at all times hereafter well 
and sufficiently saved and kept harmless by and from all manner of . . . 
and other Bargains and sales gifts grants ffrosements Jointures dowry 
titles dowries estats . . . fforfitures seazures Judments extents executions 
and all other acts and encumbrances whatsoever had made, done acknowl- 
idged or Commited by the sayd Josiah Winslow or any other pson or 
psons Clavminge or having any title or interest off in or to the Bargained 
p'mises or any pt or pcell thereof or any of the Appurtenances thereof 
by from or under him the sayd Josiah Winslow or his assignes Lawfully 
claiming ant estate right title or interest to the before mentioned Bar- 
gained p'"mises wherby the sayd William iford his heires or assigns shall 
bee molested or Lawfully evicted out of the possession or enjoyment 
thereof. To and for the true performance of the Bargained p''mises I 
the sayd Josiah Winslow doe by these p''sents bynd my selfe my heires 
executors Administrators and assigns. In witness whereof I have here- 
unto set my hand andseale the twenty sixt of ffebruary Anno Dom 1668 



Signed Sealed and Delivered 
in sight and p''sence of us 

Clem. King 

John X Lowe 

his marke 



Josias Winslow jun'' (Seal) 



POWER OF ATTORNEY OF WILLIAM HARLOW 

Know all men by these presents that I William Harlow Sen"^ one 
of the selectmen of the town of Plimouth have Constituted and by these 
presents do Constitute ordaine & appoint m"' Ephraim morton Sen'' of 
Plimouth aforesaid my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name 
& stead to appear at the County Court now in being at Plimouth afore- 
said and there with my partners the other Selectmen of s*^ Plimouth, 
vizt Joseph Bartlet and Nathaniel Southworth to prosecute an action by 
us 8^ Selectmen Comenced against Sam Rider and William Harlow jun'' 
for their unjust and Illegally possessin^g themselves of a drift whale and 
appropriating the same to their own use as in and by said action — 
Reference thereto being had more particularly and at large doth and may 
appear: hereby giving and granting to my said Attorney my whole power 
strength and Authority in all respects to doe and act as effectually and 
fully as I myself Could or Might doe if personally present in said Court 
— hereby Ratifying allowing & holding firm and stable what my said 
Attorney shall lawfully doe or Cause to be done in about or Concerning 



72 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

the premises: In witness whereof I the s'' William Harlow Sen'' have 
hereto set my hand and seal this 19''' day of march — ^ 
Signed Sealed and delivered 

in presence of Will harlow, Senr (Seal) 

Samuel harlow 
Nathaniel harlow 



BOND OF HUGH COLE AND SAMUEL BACON 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Hugh Cole of New 
Plimoth in New England Ship Carpenter and Sam' Bacon of Barnstable 
Planter do stand and are firmly bound and obliged unto the Gov''ment 
of New Plimoth aforesaid in the Sume of forty pounds of good and lawfuU 
money of New England to be p'' to the s^ Gov''ment or there successors 
upon all demands to the w*^*^ payment well and truly to be made we bind 
our selves and either of us by himself, jointly and severally for the whole 
and in the whole one and either of our heires execut''s and Administrators 
and every of them firmly by these p''sents Sealed w'^ our seales dated 
the seaventeenth day of June Anno Dom one thousand six hundred sixty 
and eight 

The Condition of this obligatio is That whereas the above bound Hugh 
Cole and Sam Bacon have obteyned Letters of Administratio fro the 
Authority of the Gov''ment of New Plimoth afforesd to Administer on the 
estate of Richard Foxwell late of Barnstable deceased, if therefore the 
. . . s Hugh Cole and Sam' Bacon theire heires execut''s Administrators 
and Assignes or any of them shall well and truly satisfy and pay or cause 
to be satisfied and payd all such dents dues and legacies as are and shall 
by any means whatsoever of right be jusUy due and payable fro the s'' 
estate And also shall fro time to time and at all times hereafter sufficiently 
secure and keepe harmlesse and undamnified the s*^ Gov''ment and their 
successors against all p'"sons whatsoever for and concerning any the s^ 
debts dues or legacies so far as the estate will be responsible That then 
this p'"sent obligatio to be voyd and null or else to rcmayne in full force 
and vertue. 

Recognit cor' me Tho^ Hinckley Hugh Cole (Seal) 

Assist. Samuel bakon (Seal) 

w'* these words interlin'd 

so far as y^ estate will be responsble. 

T.H. 



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BOND OF JOSEPH GANNET AND BENJAMIN PIERCE 



73 



Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Gannet and 
Benjamin Pierce both of Scituate in the County of Plimouth in New 
England are holden & firmly do stand bound unto the County Court of 
Plimouth in the penall sum of fifteen pounds sterling that is to say the 
said Gannet as principal in y*^ sum of ten pounds & the said Pierce in the 
sum of five pounds to the payment whereof we bind each of us our severall 
heires Executors and Administrators firmly by these presents Sealed with 
our seals Dated march 17'^'' 1690 or 91 

The Condition ... is that whereas at the Court abovesd held at 
Plimouth the day abovesd the said Joseph Gannet hath obtained Letters 
of Administration to administer on the estate of his brother Benjamin 
Gannet Late of Scituate aforesd deceased if therefore the said Joseph 
Gannet shall faithfully administer on said Estate according to law And 
present a true Inventory thereof at the next County Court at Plimouth 
the third Tuesday in September and shall keep a fair account of the s 
Administration . . . s*^ Court when legally Required of him & thereby 
. . . Indamnified the s'^ Court Respecting s^ Estate that then ... to be 
void but if otherwise to remain in full force 



Signed Sealed and delivered 

im presence of 

John Briant 

Sam' Sprague Clerk 



Joseph Gannet (Seal) 

Benjamin Peirce (Seal) 



DEED OF PLYAIOUTH TOWN AGENTS TO JOHN GRAY 

To all people to whome these presents shall Come 
William Harlow senior Jonathan Shaw senior John Stirtevant John 
doty and Ephraim Morton Junior all of the Towne of Plimouth in the 
County of Plimouth in New England Agents for and in the behalf of the 
said Towne send Greeting Know ye that whereas at a town meting 
held at Plimouth on the 22'^ day 6i June 1689 Wee the persons Above- 
named together with John Gray were by the inhabitants of s'^ towne 
Chosen deputed and appointed Agents or a Comittie for and in the behalf 
of said Towne with full power given to us or to any four of us Agreeing 
to make sale of Certain tracts of the said towns Comon lands for the 
payment of sundrey debts due to severall of the Inhabitants of said 
Towne for their labour Charge and Expence in defence of the said Towns 
Right to a Certain Island Comonly Caled and known by the name of 
Clarks Island belonging to the towne of plimouth Wherefore further 
know ye that wee the said William Harlow Jonathan Shaw John Stirte- 



74 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

vant John doty and Ephraim Morton the s^ agents or Comittie pursuant 
to the said town's: order and by vertue of the power to us Committed for 
and in Consideration of the full and Just sum of Six . . . pounds in 
Corrant Money of New England to us in hand for the use of s** towne b}' 
John Gray of the towne of plimouth well and truely paid with which sum 
we the said Agents or Committie in behalf of said Towne doe Acknowlidg 
to be fully satisfied Contented and thereof and of ever}" part and percell 
thereof in said Towns behalf do acquitt Exonerat and discharge him the 
said Gray he his heirs executors and Administrators for ever by these 
presents Have given Granted Bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and 
Confirmed and by these presents for and in behalf of the said towne and 
by vertue of the power to us Committed as above said do fully Clearly 
and absolutely Give grant bargain sell Alienat Enfeoffe and Confirm unto 
him the said John Gray his heirs & assignes for Ever threescore Acres of 
land lying in the township of plimouth and at A place Commonly Called 
and known by the Name of Colchester on; the South side of Colchester 
Brooke on the Eastward side of lands belonging to John dunham senior 
bounded as followeth the northerly Corner bounded with A white oake 
tree standing neere the Brooke marked on four sides with A heap of stones 
by it thence Running southwest Eighty four pole to A white oake standing 
on the top of A hill betwext two swamps Marked on 4 sides with A heap 
of stones by it and from said tree Runing southeast and by south one 
hundred and ten pole to a Rad oake tree marked on four sides and from 
said tree Runing Northeast one hundred pole to A red oake Marked on 
four sids with a heap of stons by it standing neere the brooke above said 
thence the line to extend to the brooke the brook to be the bounds on 
the northeast side & it is in length one hundred and ten pole to the bound 
first mentioned all the said sixty Acres Together with all the said towns 
Right title Interest property Claime or demand whatsoever of or into said 
tract or pece of land above mentioned with all and singular the privilidges 
and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining To 
have and to hold the said sixty Acres of land with the appurtenances 
to him the said John Gray his heres and assignes for Ever to the only 
proper use benefit and behoofe of him the said John Gray his heirs and 
assignes for Ever And wee the said Agents viz*^ William Harlow Jonathan 
Shaw John Stirtevant John doty and Epkraim Morton in behalf of the s*^ 
towne to and with the said John Gray his heirs and assigns do Covenant 
promise and graunt by these presents in maner and forme following that 
is to say that at the time of the Ensealing and untill the perfecting of 
these presents that the above bargained premlsesis the proper estate of 
the s^ towne and that the Inhabitants thereof are thereof lawfully seized 
and that in the Right of the said towne we the said agents or Comittie 
have full power and Lawfull Authority to graunt sell assure and Confirme 
the same unto him the above named John Gray his heirs and assignes 



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75 



in maner and forme as is Above Expressed and that it shall and may 
be lawfuU to and for the above Named John Gray his heirs and assignes 
from the day of the date hereof and for Ever here after quietly and peace- 
ably to have hold use occupy posess and Enjoy the above bargained 
premises to take to his own use for Ever and all by force and vertue of 
these presents In witnes whereof we the said William Harlow Jonathan 
Shaw John Stirtevant John doty and Ephraim Morton the agents or 
Comittie above said have hereunto set our hands and afhxed our seals 
on the 16'^'' day of march Anno domini one thousand six hundred Ninty 
& one I 691. 

The words between the 17 & 18 lins 

were Entered before the Sealing and delivere 



Signed sealed and delivered 
in the presence of us witnesses. 
Joseph Warren 
Thomas ifaunce 



will harlow 
Jonathan Shaw 
John Sturtevant 
The mark of 
John X doty 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 
(Seal) 

(Seal) 



Ephraim morton Juner (Seal) 



This deed was acknowledged by the Agents of the towne of plimouth that 
have hereunto subscribed to be their act and deed on the sixteenth day 
of March 1691 

Before mee Ephraim 

Morton Asosiate 

The above written Deed is Recorded in the Court 
Records of the Colony of New Plimouths Great 
Booke of evidences of Lands folio: 157: and 158 
p" Sam' Sprague Recorder 



BOND OF JOHN ORMSBEE AND NOAH NEWMAN 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee John Ormsbey of the 
Towne of Rehoboth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America planter — and Noah Newman of the Towne aforsaid Gentleman 
doe acknowlidge our selves to be bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': 
and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the full and just sume of four hundred 
pounds sterling: for the payment whereof well and truely to be made 
Wee bind our selves our heires executors and Adminestrators Joyntly and 
severally feirmly sealed and given this second day of June one thousand 
six hundred sixty and nine; 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the abovebounden John Ormsbey hath obtained letters of adminestration 



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to adminester on the estate of Jeremiah Martin late of Rehoboth deceased 
if therefore the said John Ormsbey doe duely and truely pay all such 
debts and legacies as are due and owing to any from the said estate and 
keep a true account of the said administration and be Reddy to give a 
true account, therof unto the said Gov" when theru unto Required by them; 
and from time to time and att all times save and keep harmles the said 
Gov"' and Court from any damage that may accrew unto them by his said 
Administration; That then the avovewritten obligation to be void and of 
none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue; 



Signed sealed and delivered 

in the p''sence 

off 

Thomas 
Doged T 

The marke 
of X John 
Smith 



John Ormsby 
Noah Newman 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF FRANCIS STEVENS 

An Inventory of the house Lands . goods 
and Debts . of ffrancis Stevens. Sen taken 
By William Carpenter and John Ormsby 
the first of Aprill 1669: 

Imp. His House. Lands. Meadows: and Commons 

His Wearing aparell: and Beding at 

His Working Toolcs at 

The Debts due to him at 



William Carpenter 
John Ormsby 



/. s. d. 
33-00-00 
01-00-00 
00-06-06 
12-17-11 



DEPOSITION OF DAVID JACOB 

This deponent testifieth and saith that some time in ffebruary 
last past I having ocasion to goe over the bridge which is Called Gan- 
nets bridge, upon the brook Caled bound brook: saw and took notice that 
according to my best judgement said bridge and way on the other side 
of the s^ bridge was dangerous and hazardous for persons passing over 
either on horseback or inconvenient on foot. 

The Oath of David Jacob aged 29 years or thcr about Taken this 
21 Day of March % before mee 

William Bradford 
Justice of peace. 



'-;Lv \n i'-.^,,hriy a^-.fit^.. h^uCi \<^>'^s ■,^, 



■4 h '■• .*s I '* s ^ '-. f c '" X iff^ 1 0:-> cj , 









I 






IX\ E.\T(.)RY OF ESTATE OE ERAXCTS STE\ EXS, SEX. 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 77 

DEPOSITION OF JOHN VINAL 

. . . testefieth and saith I being in discoseing . . . Stockbridg of sittuat 
decesed I asked him the . . . how much land the Comitty had given 
or . . . mee the s'^ Stockbridg said, four or five ... I the deponant 
answered the s'^ Stockbridg that I would not thank them for that he the 
sd Stockbridg said hee would give mee five shilHngs a aker lett there be 
what it will then I the deponent said do you take it, well sd the above 
sd Stockbridg I the deponent said I hope the two busheU of corn that 
I had of you is payd for then the s*^ Stockbridg said yes yes then the 
above s'' Stockbridg said I should have some order under your hand to 
lay this land out when your turn come and according to my best Remem- 
brance I did give the said Stockbridg under my hand the grant . . . 
above s'^ land is the same grant that I have sence . . . ated to thomas 
Stockbridg as apeareth in the town ... ok of sittuat 

. . . oath of John vinall . . . aged about sixty yeres 
this 14 day of march 4 before me John Cushing 

Justice of peace 



DEPOSITION OF JOHN HA WARD 

John Haward junr aged forty yeers or therabouts testifieth and saith 
that haveing fully known the swamp that is now in controversie between 
John Ames Sen"' and Elihu Brett for above twenty years . and fre- 
quently passing through the s'^ swamp did allways find it a very thick 
swamp and no meadow in it but only a few rods of ground att a con- 
siderable distance from s^ Ames his lott the swamp being all very full 
of trees and bushes between Ames,s lott and the s'^ small piece of medow 
further saith not 

Sworn in Court Decemb"' ig*^"^ 1693 

Attest Sam' Sprague Cler 



BOND OF SYSELIAH FISH, WILLIAM BASSETT 
AND STEPHEN SKIFFE 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee Sisselia ffish widow of the 
Towne of Sandwich in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America and William Bassett and Stephen Skiffe of the Towne aforesaid 
in the Jurisdiction aforesaid yeomen doth acknowlidge our selves to be 
bound and feirmly oblidged unto the Gov': and Court of the Jurisdiction 
aforesaid in the sume of twentyfour pounds sterling for the payment 



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THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



whereof well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors 
and adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p''sents sealed 
and given this twenty eight day of October 1669) 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that Whereas 
the above bounden mistriss Sisselia ffish hath Received letters of Admines- 
tration to adminester on the estate of Robert RoUock of Sandwich above- 
said late deceased; if therefore the said Sisselia fhsh shall pay or cause to 
be payd all such debts and legacyes as are due and owing to any from 
the said estate and shall keep a fair accomt of her said Adminestration 
and be Reddy to give a true account thereof unto the said Court when 
therunto Required by them and from time to time and att all times shee 
her heires executors and adminestrators save and keep harmles the said 
Gov'', and Court from such damage as may acrew unto them by her said 
administration; that then the above written obligation to be void and 
of none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue 



Signed sealled and delivered 
in the p''sence of 

Joseph Bradford 
The marke of 
X John Jenkens 



Syseliah ffishe 
William Bassett 



(Seal) 
(Seal) 

. Stephen Skef (Seal) 



SUIT OF BENJAMIN AND SAMUEL STOCKBRIDGE 
vs. NATHANIEL TURNER 

Plimouth William and Mary by y^ Grace of God of England 

S S Scotland ffrance and Ireland King and Queen Defend- 

ers of the ffaith Sic. 



To y* Sheriff of our County of plimouth his under sheriff or Deputy 
Greeting whereas Benjamin and Samuel Stockb ridge sons of Charles 
Stockbridge late of Scituate deceased by their guardian Samuel Clapp of 
Scituate aforesaid yeoman Received iudgment against Nathanael Turner 
of Scituate aforesaid yeoman Before our Justices of Inferious Court of 
Common Pleas holden for or within our said County of plimouth on the 
third Tuesday of June last past for the sum of thirty seven pounds and 
ten shillings money Damage and three pounds three shillings and two 
pence for Costs of Suit as to us appears of Record. Whereof Execution 
Remains to be Done. We Command you therefore that of the Goods 
Chattels or Lands of the said Nathaniel Turner within your precinct you 
cause to be paid and Satisfied at the value thereof in money the aforesaid 
sum of forty pounds thirteen shillings and two pence with two shillings 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 79 

more for this writt. And thereof also to satisfie your self for your own 
fees. And for want of such Goods Chattels or lands of the said Nath- 
anael Turner to be by him shown unto you or found within your precinct 
to the acceptance of the said Guardian to Satisfy the aforesaid sums We 
Command you to take y* Body of the said Nathanael Turner and him 
Commit to the Keeper of our Goal in plimouth within said prison: Whome 
we likewise Command to Receive the said Nathanael Turner and him 
safely to keep untill he pay to the above named Guardian the full Sum- 
above mentioned and be by him Released And also satisfie your fees. 
And this Writt with your doings therein you are to Return unto our next 
Inferiour Court of Pleas to be holden at plimouth upon y^ third Tuesday 
of June next. Witness William Bradford Esq'' at plimouth y^ 30*^'' day 
of March 1694 In the Sixth year of our Reign. 

Sam' Sprague Cler — 

This Excequation was Liverd upon the Estate off Nathanell Tornor 
and ffully payd and sattisfied as by me 
June 25'*^ 1694 

John Bradford Sherriff 



BOND OF JOHN SILVESTER 

Know all men that I John Silvester of the Towne of Scittuate 
in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in America planter doe 
acknowlidge my selfe bound and feirmly oblidged unto the Gov'': and 
Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the full and just sume of two hundred 
pound sterling for the payment wherof well and truely to bee made I 
binde mee my heires executors and Adminestrators feirmly sealed and 
given this 28'^'' day of May Ann°: Dom 1669 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden John Silvester hath obtained Lres of Administration 
to Adminester on the estate of Naomy Silvester of Scituate aforsaid late 
deceased; if therefore the said John Silvester doe faithfully pay all debts 
and legacyes due and owing from the said estate soe farr and by equal! 
proportions as the said estate will amount unto; and doe keep a faire 
and just account of his said Adminestration and be Reddy to give a true 
account therof when therunto Required by the said Court; and from 
time to times and att all times save and keepe harmles and undamnifyed 
the said Gov'': and Court from any dammage that might accrew unto 
them or any of them by his said Adminestration That then the above 



8o THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

written obligation to be void and of none cfect; or otherwise to Remaine 
in full force strength and vertue 

Signed sealed and delivered 

in the p''sence John Sillester (Seal) 

of 

the marke of Remember 
Jackson x 

The marke of x hannah 
Bosworth 



SUIT OF NATHANIEL AND ABIGAIL TURNER 
vs. THOMAS STOCKBRIDGE 

William and Mary By the Gcace of God of 
Plimouth England ffrance and Ireland king 

S S and Queen Defenders of the ffaith &c. 

(Seal) 

To the SheriflF of our County of Plimouth or his Deputy Greeting 
Whereas Nathaniel Turner of Scituate And Abigail his wife Administratrix 
of the estate of Charles Stockbridge late of Scituate Deceased Recovered 
Judgment against Thomas Stockbridge of Scituate aforesaid millwright 
Before our Justices of our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas held for or 
within our Said County of plimouth on the third Tuesday in the month 
of March last past for y^ sum of twenty seven pounds Debt Six shillings 
Damage and three pounds seven shillings and six pence for Costs of Suit 
as to us appears of Record. Whereof Execution Remains to be done. 
We Command you therefore that of the Goods Chattels or lands of the 
said Thomas Stockbridge within your precinct you cause to be paid and 
Satisfied at the value thereof in money the aforesaid sums of Debt damage 
and Costs being in all thirty pounds thirteene shillings and six pence 
with two shillings more for this writt And thereof also to sattisfie 
your Self for your own fees. And for want of such Goods chattels or 
lands of the ssid Thomas Stockbridge's to be by him shown unto you or 
found within your precinct to Sattisfie the aforesaid Sums we Command 
you to take the Body of the said Thomas Stockbridge and Commit to 
the keeper of our Goal in plimouth within the said prison whome we 
likewise Command to Receive said Thomas Stockbridge and him safely 
to keepe untill he pay unto the said Nathaniel Thomas and the said 
Administratrix the full Sum above mentioned and by them Released And 
also Sattisfie your flFees. And this Writt with your Doings therein you 
are to Return to our said Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be holden 
at plimouth upon the third Tuesday of June next 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 8i 

Witness William Bradford Esquire at plimouth the 26'*^ day of April 
1694 In the Sixth year of our Reign. 

Sam' Sprague Cler. 

Jonathan Tornor Constabele off Sattuate I dew Consetute and macke 
and appoint you to be my Lawfull debty to Lene and sarve: this Exce- 
qution on the bodey of Thomas Stockbredg off said Settuate/ and hem 
savefflly to kepe and bring and delever to me att thee Mag^': GoUe att 
plimouth 

P Me 

John Bradford sher': 

This Exceqution was Leived upon the body off Thomas Stockbridg 
and the money fully payd and sattisfRed as by me 
June 21'^: 1694 John Bradford Sheriff" 

BOND OF MICHAEL PEIRCE AND EDWARD JENKINS 

Michaell Peirce and Edward Genkins of Sittuate doe acknowlidg 
to owe and bee indebted to his Alajesteys Court of New Plimoth in the 
sum of and hundred pounds 

The Condition of the obligation is that if Hester the relict of John 
Woodfeild of Sittuate deceased doe truly and faithfully administer upon 
the estate of John Woodfeild her deceased husband in payment of debts 
and legacies; that then these bonds bee voyde and of none efect or other- 
wise to stand and remayne of full power force and vertue. 

July 23. 69 Edward ginkins (Seal) 

Taken Before 

[Name cut out]st/ Michell Pearse (Seal) 

Letters of Administration are granted to Hester the relict of John 

Woodfeild to Administer upon the estate of her s^ deceased husband. 

Juli j 23. 69 p'' Jos: Winslow Asist 

by the Courts apoyntment. 

DEPOSITION OF JOSEPH BURGE 

Joseph Burge aged about 30 yeares doe testify that i heard Robert 
Raulucke say that he did intend marriage with his land lady this fall 
when m'' freeman Came to the Court or as he went home and did 
intend to take a friend or two with him and be marryed this his speach 
to mee was about a month or six weekes before he dyed and further 
Sayth not 

Taken upon oath before me Tho Southworth 

Plimoth the 28 of ocktober [1669I Asst 



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INVENTORY OF ROBERT ROLLOCK'S ESTATE 

An Inventory of the Estate of Robert Rolock deceased of Sand- 
wich taken by us whose names are underwritten this 15 of September 

1669 ; s d is. d. 

Imprim five yds and one quarter of kersie at 6-6 p yd: 1-14- i 

It 2 yds 3 qrs of frize : at 4' - 6"* p yd 0-12- 4 

It a troopers Coat ... 0-16- o 

It one paire of breeches o-io- o 

It one old wascoat & one paire of breeches 0-8-0 

It one old dublet & an old par : of breeches 0-4-6 

It one old troopers Coat & one par: of drawers 0-3-0 

It two par: of Cotton drawers 0-8-0 

It 6 doz : Coat gimp button 3 yds galloon :i 5 skeins silk 0-5-0 

It 3 shirts 0-13- o 

It stockins 0-7-0 

It shoes 0-4-0 

It 3 bands 2 handkcrchers I neck cloth : and band strings 0-3-0 

It I hatte 0-2-0 

It powder & shott: and som other small things 0-5-0 

It bed and bedding 2-10- o 

It one old sithe and with 0-2-6 

It one gun one . . . and belt 1-6-0 

It one Chest one spade 2 hoes & one axe 0-8-0 

It 12 [Jags] of [Knetts] 1-4-0 

Richard Bourne 
Nathaniell ffish 
thomas tobye 
John Ellis x his marke 



Memorandum ther is one littell old Bibel & one an old pare 

of gloves & a littell peece of leather & a pare of Shooes 

As I take it may be all Worth six shillings 

A paring knife I take it worth — 3d 

Ther is more to Remember Tw^o stockes of Bees & three 

olde hives & one New hive 

At the praising of his goods Mistress ffish did say to the 
praisers Namely Richard Bourne Nathaniell fBsh Thomas 
Tobye & John Ellis that the breeches abovesaid valued 
ten shillings was given by Robt RoUiflf to her son John 
ffish sum time befor his death & likewise that Robt RollifF did give 
to her a wascoate cloath for herself out of the five 
yardes & one quarter of kersey aboveprised 
Witnes to this Edmond ffreeman Juneor 



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83 



SUIT OF JOHN LIECH vs. RICHARD BURT 

Plymouth Ss. 

William the third by y^ Grace of God King of England &c. To either of 
our Constables of Taunton Greeting. We command you to Attach y^ Goods 
or Estate of Richard Burt of Taunton Boatman to y*^ value twenty pounds 
money and for want thereof to take the Body of y^ said Richard Burt if he 
may be found within your precinct and him safely keep so that you have him 
before our Justices of our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be holden for 
our County of Plymouth upon the third Tuesday of June next then and there 
to Answer unto John Liech of Bridgwater husbandman . . . action of Tres- 
passe to the Damage of Nine pounds . . . shillings and eleven pence in 
money for that the said Richard Burt sometime since the first day of January 
Last past hath unjustly taken away from the plf about the Quantity of 
Twenty thousand of Shingles from y^ Town Loading place in Taunton 
aforesaid a little below y^ place Called y* Wear and that without leave 
or order of y^ plf and the said shingles Refuseth to Return or to Render 
meet satisfaction to y'' plf for them as he saith shall then and there apper 
with all other due damages and have you then there this writt 
Witness William Bradford Esq'' at plymouth y^ 31*'' day of may 1697 
In the Ninth year of our Reign 

Sam' Sprague Cler 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SAAWEL STURTEVANT 

An Inventory of the Estate of Samuell Sturtevant 
Deceased Taken the 22*^** day of October 1669 
By Serg'^ Ephraim Tincome Joseph Howland 

& W" Crowe 



/. J. d. 

08-00-00 

13-15-00 

01-00-00 

01-12-00 

04-00-00 

02-08-00 

02-02-00 

00-12-00 



Imprf 2 steares .... 
5 Cowes one with the other 
I Yeareling Steare 

4 Calves 

1 Horse 

5 Sheep, one halfe and a Lamb 
3 Swine at 14s apeece is 

2 Lesser at 

33- 9-00 
Wearring Apparell 

I Coat and Suit at 02-00-00 

1 old Suit 00-06-08 

2 Shirtes 00-16-00 

3 paire Stockins i p'' shoues 00-11-00 

1 p"^ Drawers 00-06-00 

A hat and Wascoat 00-06-00 

2 bands, Neckcloth and hand kerchers 00-05-00 

4-16-08 



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I p"' old Breeches /• s. d. 

Household Goods 0006-00 

5 Pewter platters 01-06-00 

4 great Saucrs 00-03-00 

I pie plat I Bason i small; dish at 00-05-00 

I pewter I brasse Candle Sticke 00-05-00 

I brasse mortcr and Pestell 00-07-00 

I Pewter pint pot & sault seller 00-03-00 

I Saucer & yi pint pot 00-01-06 

I pewter brasse boule 00-01-06 

I Tin Kettle oa-00-09 

I Tin Lampe & two wooden dishes 00-01-06 

4 porrcngcrs 00-03-00 

I Pewter pot, bottle porringer & spcece bason 00-03-06 

I Chamber pot 00-04-06 

5 Spoones 00-01-08 

1 Stone Jugg I Saucer 3 porring's 00-01-06 

3 pottle 00-01-06 

17 wooden Trayes 00-10-00 

2 pailes a sie dish and another dish 00-02-06 

2 great Tubs 00-08-00 

I halfc Hogshead 00-02-06 

1 Warming pan a brasse skimmer 00-08-00 

. . . Skcllet & Iron Skellct 00-06-00 

2 brass Kettles 00-16-00 

2 iron pots & pot hooks 01-07-00 

2 Pr. Tramcyells 00-07-00 

I Pr. Tongs, fire shovell & Spit 00-09-00 

1 Pr. Bellowes OO-OI-06 

2 Sives I wicker Basket 00-05-00 

I percell of Indian Baskets 00-03-00 

I Trunk: f: l Chest 8^: 3 boxes 6^: i nest Drawers 3^: . ' 01-04-00 

I forme and 3 Chaircs 00-04-00 

1 y** K of kersie 15': 3^ y'': kersie 4': 00-19-00 

2 yds of home made Cloth 00-09-00 

2 small Cushings and i Cubcrd Cloth oo-ii-oo 

1 peece Green Say 2*: i brush i^ 00-03-00 

2 paire of sheets 01-05-00 

I Table Cloth 00-12-00 

5 Sheets 20'"^: Shil: i fine pillowbeare 3 Courser 16 s 01-16-00 

I Doz flax Napkins i Towell 15' two Remnants hoUand 01-00-00 

I Rugg at 20''" s I pr blankets 12 01-12-00 

I Bed Bolster, and 2 pillowes 03-10-00 

Earthen pots 00-01-06 

1 Spinning wheele 3 old pairs of Cards 00-05-06 

2 old Tubb I paile and . . . with Tin pan 00-02-00 

A percell of Cotton and Sheeps woole & spinning 01-08-00 

A ... of Cotton wool 00-03-09 

I Bed and 2 bolsters 02-10-00 

I percell off Tobacoe 00-10-00 

6 pound of Sheeps woole or thcr about 00-07-06 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 85 

/. s. d. 

I Little bag and ffeathcrs in it 00-01-06 

I old tubb & Lumber 00-00-06 

A persell of flax 00-01-00 

I Sadie; pillow and blind halter 00-09-00 

I Cradle rugg & two Pillowes 00-03-06 

5 hoes 5': I Chaine for horse & oxe 8^ 6"^ 00-13-00 

3 Axes 8^: i mortiseing axe 2^: 2 forkes 2^ 00-12-00 

I Siccle and old Iron Lumber 00-06-00 

3 Iron Staples and Hookcs 00-04-00 

I pease hooke 6*^, i plow & the Tacklings 00-16-00 

The Iron workc belonging to A waine 01-02-00 

3 Bushell of Barley 00-12-00 

20 Bushells off Indian Corne or thcr abouts 03-00-00 

A percell of Ric threshed & unthreshed Estimated at 8 bushells. . . . 01-08-00 

I bushell of wheate at 00-04-06 

15 Load of hay or ther abouts wint y^ Catle 03-15-00 



79-02-10 



as for his Housing and Lands; we Leave 

y"^ valuation ther off 

I meale bagg, i dish, i y** of Cloth, Chccscfat 

Debts Owing to be payd out of the Estate to Severall viz 

John Rogers of Duxborough 01-05-00 

John Dunham 00-16-03 

Jabees Rowland 00-14-00 

John Mosses 00-16-06 

James Cole Seni"^ 00-06-00 

Samel Barnabe 00-12-02 

Edward Graye 11-06-03 

Wm Nelson 00-16-00 

Widdow Dunham 00-12-06 

John Shaw of Boston 00-10-00 

Elizabeth Chamber of Boston 00-05-00 

Mis Sarah Paine 00-08-00 

M'Tho: Clarke of Boston 01-10-00 

John Wood 00-05-00 

Serg' W" Harlow 02-02-00 

And' Ring 00-01-06 

Widdow Barstow 02-00-00 

Sam" Ring 00-15-00 

John Hubberd 00-03-00 

Thomas Lucus 00-06-00 

John Smith 00-08-00 

23-18-04 
This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel Morton Secretary to the Court for 
the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth See booke of 
Wills and Inventoryes Recorded folio: 11:12: 



86 THE PLYAIOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

NOTICE BY SELECTMEN OF MARSHFIELD TO 
JOHN TRASIE, JR. 

To Either of y*^ Constables of Marshfield. Greeting: 
Whereas John Trasie junior of y^ Town of Duxborough about the Begin- 
ning of may last hath Removed himself and family from Duxborough afore- 
said and hath taken up his abode and residence with his s*^ family in the 
Town of marshfield Without the leave and Contrary to the mind of 
the selectmen of marshfield aforesaid. Wherefore you are hereby ordered 
and in his Ma*^'^^ Name Required without delay to warn and give notice 
to the said John Trasie that he with his said family forthwith Depart 
and Remove from this the said Town of marshfield he not being per- 
mitted here to Inhabit or longer to Reside — of which you may not fail 
and make Return of this warrant to one of the Select men with your 
Doings hereupon with all convenient speed. 

Dated at marshfield Isaac Winslow 

y^ 28'^'' day of June 1697 one of s^ Selectmen in 

y^ name and p'' order of 

y* Rest 
[On the reverse] 

marshfield July 12'** 1697 

then the within wreten John treasey was waned to remove himself and 
family oute the town erf marshfield and the within warant writen was 
reed to him 

by me Solomon hewet constable 



DEPOSITION OF ELISHA BRADFORD 

Elisha Bradford aged 29 yeares or thereabout testifieth and saith that 
John Summers somtime of marshfeild came to my fathers house on a lords 
day morning sometime in June and I saw him going toward his home and 
further saith not 

the oath of Elisha Bradford 

Before me Thomas Hayward 

justice of peace 



INVENTORY OF ESTATTE OF JOHN ROBBINS 

An invitary of the goods of the late Deceased John Robbins of 
Bridgwater this ...*'' of the 6 moneth 1669 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 87 

/. s. d. 

ImprI two oxen 07-00-00 

three cowes and two calves 08-10-00 

two swine 01-00-00 

two chests 00-12-00 

fFoure pewter platters a pint pot and three poringers 01-00-00 

ffor andirons fire shovell & gridirons pot hangers 00-17-00 

flFor part of plaw irons chain and whip saw 00-10-00 

three chayers three keilers and a sifting dish 00-10-00 

a basket full of yarne 00-10-00 

a flock bed a rugg a bolster two pillowcs & a chushin and a curtaine . . 20-12-00 

a payer boots a brush a dry cask and a beere barrell w*'' other small things . 00-10-00 

a feather bed and bolster one pillow and rugg & blanket 05-10-00 

a suite and cloake 03-10-00 

old cloothes and shewes & stockns gloves & mittings 

One payer of sheets and to shirts 01-00-00 

One musket and sword 01-00-00 

One ketle a tub payle and pot hooks and sickle 01-00-00 

A sieth hammer smothing Iron hoows a tin pan porringer and two Spoons 

& tray & Salt seller 00-16-00 

A bible and a hat 



[Not signed.] 



The Sum is 
the house and land not prised 



00-10-00 



38-10-00 



SUIT OF CALEB AND LYDIA LORING vs. NATHANIEL AND 
DOROTHY (GRAY) CLARKE 

Plimoth Ss. 

William y^ third by y^ Grace of God of England &c Kin? &c. To our 
said County his under sheriff or Deputy Greeting We Command you to Sum- 
mon & give notice unto Nathanal Clarke of Plimoth Gen*^ and Dorathy his 
wife that they appear before our Justices at our Inferiour Court of Common 
Pleas to be holden for our said County of Plymouth at Plymouth on y^ third 
Tuesday of December next Then & there to Answ^er unto Caleb Loring of 
Plimouth aforesaid weaver & Lidea his wife. In a Plea wherefore/ That 
whereas y' said Dorothy was by y^ Court of Assistants held at plimouth afore- 
said on y^ first day of Jtily 1684. appointed Guardian of y*^ aforesaid Lidea 
who was then in her minority. By vertue of which Guardianship y*^ said 
Nathanael and Dorathy did take y*^ Rents and profits of y^ lands belonging to 
y^ aforesaid Lidea in Punkateast and Sapowest in Tiverton in y'^ County of 
Bristol during the minority of y*^ s'' Lidea. yet notwithstanding y*^ said 
Nathanael & Dorathy unjustly denyeth & Refuseth to Render y^ aforesaid 
Caleb & Lidea a just & rationall account of y'^ Rents and profits of y^ afore- 
said Lands by them taken as aforesaid whereby the plfs are y^ worse & have 



88 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

sustained Damage ten pounds money as shall then and there appear with 
all other due damages & have you then there this writ 
Witness William Bradford Esq'' at Plimouth y^ 28''' day of November 
in y^ tenth year of our Reign.AnnoqueDomini 1698: 



Sam' Sprague Cler 



The defen' viz'^ m'' Clarke 
saith That he hath not Received 
any of s'^ Rents & by vertue 
of agreement he halh nothing 
to do with it 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF NATHANIEL GOODSPEED 

An Inventory of the Estate of Nathaniell Goodspeed of Barnstable 
lately deceased taken by ys whose hands are subscribed this 23 day of 
Atay in the yeare 1670 

/. s. d. 

In primis In neate Cattle twentie one pounds 21-00-00 

In horse flesh eleaven pounds Il-oo-oo 

In sheep foure pounds ....'. 04-00-00 

In Swine fortie shillings 02-00-00 

In linncn fifty shillings 02-10-00 

In wearing Clothes nine pounds ten shillings 09-10-00 

In Armes two pounds .... 02-00-00 

In peuter and Brass three pounds . 03-00-00 

In an Iron pot & pot hookes & hangers and andirons one pound fiveteene 01-15-00 

one Table board two chests and two boxes at one pound ten shillings 00-05-00 

Tin things and earthen dishes at five shillings 00-05-00 

one looking glass & smothing Iron an houre glass and two old dishes 

at eight shillings 08-00-00 

foure yards of serge and a remnant of home made cloth .... 01-00-00 

Carpenters tools at one pound 01-00-00 

Cart and wheeles a plow Coulter bolt bee and Cart rope .... Ol-io-oo 

A sadle bridles and sickels one pound 01-00-00 

In household lumbers one pound fiveteene shillings 01-15-00 

more in Lumber at five shillings 00-05-00 

71-08-00 

more 3 goats & a kid 02 in silver 01-00-00 

y totall Is 72-08-00 

william Crocker 

Elizabeth the relict of the above sr John Chlpman 

Nathaniell made oath to the truth 

of this Inventory 2 July 1670 Cor me Tho Hickley Assist: 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 89 

Roger Goodspeed the ffather of the bovesr nathan acknolwedged before me that 
he gave to his son the said Nathaniell 5 acres of upland and one acre of marsh 
was was in his possessio before his decease. Ita attest prdict Tho: Hinckley 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel: Morton Secretary to the Court 
for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth See Booke 
of Wills and Inventoryes Recorded folio: 19 : 



The envitary of Martha Nelson deseced /. s. d. 

imprimis housing and upland 50-00-00 

Item — ■ bancercheres 12 shillings: 2 whit aprnes 5 00-17-00 

Item one grene aporne 4 shilling: one pare of gloves i shilling 00-05-00 
Item 3 blew apornes 4 shillings 3 neckcloathes I shill 6 pence 2 shifts 

shillings oohd6-oo 

Item one black scilcke hancher : one black Cap 00-03-06 

This Inventary was taken and Aprised by us hose hanes 
are under reten this 7 day of march: 1683 

John doty John ricker 



DEPOSITIONS OF SAMUEL SPRAGUE AND SAMUEL THO^/[AS 

Samuel Sprague aged 58 years and Samuel Thomas aged about 
42 years both of marshfield being summonned To give evidence to informe 
y^ Grand jury both Testifie each for him self as foUoweth That is to say 
the said Sprague being in Company with John Somes Sometime in this 
month of June at y'^ house of s^ Samuel Thomas & y^ same day at y*^ 
house of Israel Thomas in marshfield did hear John Somes aforesaid swear 
at or in y^ house of s*^ Samuel Thomas (by y^ name of God three times 
in a very short time one oath following another) And then going with 
him to the house of s'^ Israel heard him swear once by y" name of God 
he being or seeming to be in a very great Rage. Adding to his first oath 
that he would have a pistol! charged before he went out of Towne And 
the said Sam' Thomas Testifyeth th*^ he heard him swear as aforesaid at 
his house twice one after y^ other & added that he would have a pistol 
charged as aforesaid 

Testified upon oath the 21 June 1698 

William Bradford Justice of peace 



SUIT OF EBENEZER SPROUT vs. ROBERT AND JOSEPH STETSON 

Plimouth Ss. 

William y*^ third by y^ Grace of God of England &c. King &c 

To y'' Sheriff of our said County his under sheriff or deputy or to y^ 



90 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

Constable or Constables of Duxborough or Scituatc or any of them Greet- 
ing. We Command you to Attach y^ Goods or Estate of Robert stetson 
of Duxborough and Joseph Stetson jun"' of Scituate husbandmen alias 
carpenters to y*^ value of sixteene pounds money and for want thereof 
to take the body or bodies of them or either of them if to be found in 
your precincts and him or them so taken safely to keep so that you may 
have them before our Justices at our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas 
to be holden for our said County of Plimouth on y'^ third Tuesday of 
December next then and there to Answer unto Ebenezer Sproat of Scitu- 
ate aforesaid Husbandman in an action of Debt for their not paying to 
y*^ plf the sum of seven pounds and twelve shillings in money due upon 
Bill Given under y^ hands and seals of y^ s^ Robert Stetson and Joseph 
Stetson which Bill beareth date of y^ il"" day of Aprill 1698. w'^'' s*^ Debt 
y^ s^ Robert and Joseph unjustly neglecteth to pay unto y^ plf which is to 
his Damage fifteen pounds money as shall then & there appear with all 
other due Damages and have you then there this Writt. Witness William 
Bradford Esq': at plimouth the 28"^ day of November In y^ Tenth year 
of our Reign Annoque Domini 1698. 

Sam' Sprague Cler — 
I have atacht y' bodi of Joseph stetson iunior 
this 29 dai of novem 1698 

pr nic iosiah palmer Constable 

Pursuant to the within writen warrant I attached the body of Robert 
Stetson the 29"" day of novembef 1698, by me Aaron Soul constable of 
duxbury 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF GARTHERN HURST 

An Inventory of the Goods of Garthern Hurst widdow Deceased Taken 
the 30"' dav of Maye 1670: By Ephraim Tincome & William Crowe 

/. s. d. 

Impris. I Searge wascoat & Cotton Peticoat 0-16-00 

I Cloth wascoat & Cotton woole peticoat 0-14-00 

1 wascote 0-04-00 

2 old approns 2^ & i yd of Red Cotton 3' 6*^ 0-05-06 

2 Shifts 3^-5 Dressings i^ 4 QuoflFes i^ 2 Caps 6** 0-05-06 

2 Ncckc Cloths 2^ 2 pocket Hankchers 6'' 0-02-06 

I p' Shoiies & Stockins 0-02-00 

I Peticoat 7', I hatt 2' 2 hand Towels i'' 6^* 0-10-06 

I payer of sheets o- 10-00 

I Pare Sheets & other Linning all old 0-06-00 

I pare pillowbeares 0-05-00 

I ffeather bed; Bolster; and Pillow 2-10-00 

I Rugg 0-15-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



91 



/. s. d. 

I paire of Tongs & i paire Trammells 0-05-00 

I friing oanne and a [hanging Treeuett] 0-05-00 

I Brasse Pot & i old Iron pot & A morter & i paire pot hooks . o-oS-00 

I Spit 3^; I peete basson & two Little pewter dishes 7 o-io-oo 

I beeker two porringers i pot i Chamber pot 0-03-00 

5 Wooden trayes at 9^ a peece is 0-03-09 

I Altammy Spoone & 4 earthen pots & pans o-oi-oo 

1 Brasse Kittle 0-04-00 

2 Chaires 5^; i Cuberd 4^; i Chest 6^ 0-15-00 

}^ Cowe in Gershom Cobs Hands i-io-oo 

I yearling i-oo-oo 

I Cows hide 0-08-00 

1 old Srg Curtaine & small vallence 2^; 2 little boxes 2^ 0-04-00 

2 Cheese fatts 8** I Smothing Iron I^ i Stone pot 2^ o-oi-io 

I Linning Quofe 4** is 0-00-04 

1 3-05-1 1 

Disbursed ffor flFunerall Charge 01-16-00 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniell Morton Secretary to the Court for 
the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth see Wills &. 
Inventiryes folio 18 



BOND OF JEHOSHABATH ROBBINS 

Know all men by these p''sents that Wee Jehosabath Robbins 
widdow of the Towne of Plymouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in 
New England in America; and John Jourdaine of the Towne aforsaid in 
the Jurisdiction aforsaid Taylor doe acknowlidg our selves to be bound 
and firmly obliged unto the Gov"": and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in 
the just sum of one hundred pounds sterling for the payment whereof 
well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors & 
adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p'"sents sealed and 
given this 29''^ day of March anno dom. one thousand six hundred and 
seventy. 

The Condition of this abovewritten obligation is such That wheras 
The above bounden Jehosabath Robbins hath obtained Letters of Admin- 
estration to administer on the estate of John Robbins late of Plymouth 
in the CoUonie aforesaid deceased; if therefore the said Jehosabath Robbins 
shall and doe pay all such debts and legacies as are due and owing unto 
any from the said estate soe farr and by equall proportions as the estate 
will amount unto and from time to time and att all times save and keepe 
harmles the said Gov"" and Court from such damages as may accrew unto 
them by her said adminestration; and keepe a faire account of her said 
adminestration; and be Reddy to give account therof when thereunto 



92 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

Required that then the abovewritten obligation to be void and of none 
effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force and vertue. 

Signed sealed and delivered 

in the p'^sence of Jehosabath Robbins (Seal) 

Tho Faunce The marke 

the marke of John X Jordaine (Seal) 

of X Lvdia Morton 



POWER OF ATTORNEY OF JOHN GIBBS TO WILLIAM BASSETT 

Know all men By these presents that I John Gibbs Late of Mid- 
dleborough Now of the Town of Sandwich In the County of Barnestable 
In New England: have Constituted and appointed and by these presents 
doe ordain Constitute appoint and in my stead and place have made and 
put my Trusty and well beloved friend William Bassett of the same towne 
of Sandwich to be my true and Lawful! Attorney for me and in my name 
to appeare at the next Inferiour Court of Comon Pleas to be holden att 
Plimouth for the county of Plimouth on the third Tuesday of this Instant 
December and there Ansuer for me and in my name defend an action 
of Debt Comenced against me By Nicholas Morey of Taunton in the 
County of Bristol which is to be att the s*^ Court heard and determined, 
and that he my s'^ Attorney shall for me and in my behalfe Implead the s'' 
Nicholas Morey in the s'^ action or suit and therein doe what is needfull 
in the Law on my part and behalfe to be done in as full and ample 
maner as I myselfe Could or might doe If I were there personally present 
hereby Rattifying allowing and holding firm and stable whatsoever my s'* 
Attorney shall lawfully doe or Cause to be done In the premises. In 
witness whereof I the s^ John Gibbs have hereunto sett my hand and scale 
this twelvth day of December Anno dom°: 1698 

In presence of 

Sam" Prince John Gibbs (Seal) 

Isaac Robinson* his marke 

Sandwich the same 12*^*^ day of December then 
the above named John Gibbs personally appeared 
and acknowledged the above and within written 
Instrument to be his act and Deed 

Before me 

Stephen Skeffe justice 

of peace 
♦Son of the Reverend John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrim church at Scrooby, 
England, and Leyden, Holland. 



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THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



93 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM LUMKIN 



An invintary of y^ Estate of y*^ dececed 
as it is apprised by us this 6 day of Janewa 

and first his clothing 

one gould ring . 

Tabble linnen 

pillo-beears . 

in sheets. 

one Carpit . 

one great brush 

The bed in y^ parlor 

The bed Steed 

One chect i''. one chest & box i'' 

Yarne 12^: a table 10^: 2 Chaires & Cushins 4' 

andirons & tongs 

in y' Citching : y'' bed & bedding 

a warming pan 

in peutar 

a drinking Cup edge w"" silver 

2 Earthen dishes i^: spoons i^: In a chare i', 6' 
Trais 3*. pailes 2^6'^: an iron mortar 5^ 
I iron pot & 2 pothooks 9^6'*: to bras skillet 8^ 

1 iron skillet: 4^: to bras kettles i'': 
Chimney hoke or tramill 8^: 2 iron dogs 8^ 
a gridiron 3^: a fier pan 1^6*^: ballos I^ 6'' . 
a Chaffing dish i^ to box irons 3^: a spit 3^ 
a bras candle stick: i^. 3 bibles 12^ . 
& other books 10^; to iron bullets 3^ a chest and a 
in y* innar roome : y^ bed & beding 
a fflax Comb 12^: a pair of loomes & harnis 
in yarn i'' •.2^:6'^: a quil wheele 2^: 6'' : 
beere barrels & tunnil 7^: 6*^: a friing pan 
in y^ lento. Ceelars trais & tubs & other lumber 
in y® Chambars; 4 sickles 2^: hoos 6*^: a ffro. 3^ 
Chaines & hoks: 14^: 6*^: a bend 8": siths 5^ 
weges axles & other iron things .... 
Cotton woole 6': flax 16^: sheeps wool 20' 
Cards 7^: 2 buts 5^: Spinning wheeles 14^ 
Warping bars & scarlet 6^ : & other lumbars 

Saddle & bridle 

an iron Cettle 

one plow & sheare & coulter Cope 

Cart & wheels . 

one musket & sword . 

3 oxen 10'': 6 Cowes 15'' 

2 Calves i8^ 5 pigs i'': 5' 
one horse .... 

John Crowell 
John Halle 



m"' WiUiam Lumkin: 
ry 1670: 



sifting 



trofe 



/. .f. d. 
04-00-06 
01-00-00 
01-02-00 
00- 1 5-06 
03-16-00 
00-10-00 
00-01-06 
05-18-00 
00-05-00 
02-00-00 
01-06-00 
00-13-00 
06-03-00 
00-14-00 
02-11-00 
00-03-00 
00-03-06 
00-10-00 
00-17-06 
01-04-00 
00-16-00 
00-06-00 
00-07-00 
00-13-00 
00-10-00 
03-02-00 
04-12-00 
01-05-00 
00-09-06 
01-18-06 
00-15-00 
01-07-06 
00-19-00 
02-02-00 
01-06-00 
01-06-00 
01-00-00 
01-00-00 
00-10-00 
01-00-00 
01-00-00 
25-00-00 
02-03-00 
05-00-00 
93-01-06 



94 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

and as for Deetes that ar owing to this estate or that 
are to be payd ffrom it M" Lumkin knows very littell 
Difference: and they are not much ether of them so 
ffar as she knowes 

The 8''' daye of the 12*'' moneth 70: 

M" Tomasen Lumpkin the wife formerly of 

M"" WiUiam Lumpkin desesed did take her 

Oath That this inventory of the said Mr Lumpkin 

above wrighten is a true Inventory so far 

as shee doeth knowe before mee 

Nath Bacon 
Asistant 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 

p me Nathaniell Morton Secretary see book 

of Wills and Inventoryes beginning at 1671 folio 30: 



SUIT OF BENJAMIN PETERSON vs. ADAM WRIGHT 

Plimouth Ss. 

William y' third by y^ Grace of God &c. King &c. 

To our sheriff of our said County his under Sheriff or Deputy or Constable 

of Plimouth Greeting. 

We Command you to Attach y^ Goods or estate of Adam Wright of 
Plimouth blacksmith to y^ value of Ten pounds money and for want of 
estate to take y^ body of s^ Adam Wright if he may be found in your 
precinct and him safely keep so that you have him before our Justices 
at our next Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Plimouth 
on y* Third Tuesday of this Instant December there to Answer unto 
Benjamin Peterson of Duxborough Saylor in an Action of Debt for his 
not paying unto y^ s^ Plf the sum of five pound in money due unto him 
from y*' said Adam Wright by his Promise which Some time in y^ latter 
end of y^ last Sumer he made & Became obliged to pay unto y^ Plf for 
y^ account of John Haskall of Middleborough who formerly borrowed a 
like sum of money of y^ Plf for payment whereof y^ said Adam Wright 
became engaged as abovesaid & unjustly neglected to pay y^ same to s*^ 
Plf which is to his damage ten pounds money as shall then and there 
appear with all due damages and have you then there this writt 
Witness William Bradford Esq"' at Plimouth the 5''' day of December In 
y' Tenth year of our Reign, Annoque Domini 1698. 

Sam Sprague cler 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 95 
INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF EDWARD HALL 

The Inventory of Edward Hall made & apprised the: 6*^'': of 
March: 16^1: 

/. s. d. 

Imprimis his wearing apparel! ; hatt stokings & shoes 02-10-00 

Waring linning, as shirtts bands & Capps 00-12-00 

It. a bed. pillowes, sheets, and a Rugg 03-00-00 

It more in beding 10^: 00-10-00 

It two bed steads 10^: 00-10-00 

It one warming pann : 6^: 2 brasse kittles & a skilktt 01-08-00 

It two Iron potts and one kittell i'': 10^: 01-10-00 

It 3 platters one Bason one porringer & yi pint 00-14-00 

It 4 dairy vessells with some wooden dishes 12': 00-12-00 

It tubbs A churne and other wooden vessells 00-12-00 

It Chest box wheell and Chayers 00-14-00 

It Cart Irons, Yokes axes wedges & agors 02-10-00 

It 2 sithes 2 sickles & one bill 13' 00-13-00 

It one gridiron a pr of tongs 2 frien pans & pot hooks 00-10-00 

It woole and Cotton yarne i*" 01-00-00 

It one peece of whome made Cloth 04-16-00 

It ten bushels of Indian Corne 01-10-00 

It share & Coulter and pitch forke 00-09-00 

It provisions for the family 01-00-00 

It one old Saddel, Scales, Cradel, Cheese presse & other utensils . . 00-10-00 

It in Swine 3": 10^: 6"^ 03-10-06 

It one Cow a steere 3 yeer old: & 2 yeer old heifer and a yearling & a sucking 

Calfe 15-00-00 

house and Lands with meddows 40-00-00 

Total is 84-00- o 
Apprized by 

us Peter Hunt on the oath of Ester hall 

& Hen: Smith 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel: Morton Secretary see book 
of wills & Inventoryes Records beginning Anno 1671 
folio 30: 31. 

DEPOSITION OF JOSEPH CHURCHILL 

Joseph Churchell aged 60: year or there abouts testifieth & saith 
that I heard George bonam Deseased & William Harlow Desesed saye 
that they had both bought all hix his poynt and they tould me that it 

was theres & they said that I should Cut upon it what I would &: I did 
by their order severall times for 30 year agoo both seege and salt marsh 
and it has gon by the name of hikes point for this 30 years. 
Sworne in Court March y*^. (1707-8) attest [cut out.] 



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INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM HOLLIWAY 

A True Inventory of the Lands Goods & Chattels of W'ilhn Holliway 
of Marshfeild late deceased* as foUoweth: 

/. s. d. 

Imprimis ffourc Cowcs Rated 20'' 20-00-00 

It one two year old heifer 55^ 02-15-00 

It one ycareling Rated 2'' 02-00-00 

It one dwelling house & howsing for Cattle Ratted 5'' 5' 05-05-00 

It one track of upland w"' meadow belonging to it 20'' 20-00-00 

It two Iron potts, 2 little brasse kettles w"' 13 little pieces of Pewter, l'" 10' 01-10-00 

It twelve Bushell of Indian Corne & 2 bushells of wheate 02-08-00 

It Cotton wool & yarne Rated 30^ 01-10-00 

It one frying pan, one chest one tubbe one payle one siev & sifting troffe & 

one woolen wheel & one Bible, one Barrell one Axe, 2 hows .... 02-10-00 

It one gun. one sithe, one sword. 30' 01-10-00 

It Money owinge 01-10-00 

It one Bed & beding 05-00-00 

John Dingly: 

Robert x Carver his marke 

John Russel 



BOND OF ESTER HALL 

Know all men by these p''sents That I Ester hall Widdow of 
the Towne of Rehoboth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England 
in America; doe acknowlidge my selfe to be bound and feirmly obliged 
unto the Gov^: and Court of Plymouth aforesaid in the penal sum of one 
hundred pound sterling for the payment wherof well and truely to be made 
I bind my selfe my heires executors and Adminestrators firmly by these 
p''sents sealed and given this twenty seaventh day of July Ann°: dom': 
one Thousand six hundred seaventy and one 1671 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whcras 
the above bounden Ester hall hath obtained Letters of Adminestration 
to Adminester upon the estate of Edward hall of Rehoboth, late deceased 
if therefore shee the said Ester hall her heires executors or administrators 
doe pay or cause to be payed all such due debts and legacies as are due 
and owing from the said estate soe farr and by equall proportions as the 
said estate will amount unto, and keep a faire accompt of her said Admin- 
estration and be Reddy to give in the same unto the Court when thcrunto 
Required of them and save and keep harmles the said Gov', and Court 
from any damage that may accrew or befall to them by her said admines- 

*He died before March i, 1652-3, when administration on his estate was granted 
to his widow Grace. 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 97 

tration; that then the above written obligation to be void and of none 
effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue; 

Signed sealed and 
delivered in the p''sence 

of John Morton The marke 

of X Ester (Seal) 

The mark hall 

of John X Smith 



DEED OF JAMES HOWLAND TO JOHN GRAY 

To all people to whom these presents shall come greeting 
Know ye that I James Howland of the town of plimouth in newengland 
for and in consideration of Twenty eight shillings in money to me already 
in hand paid by John Gray of the town of plimouth aforesaid: wherewith 
I do acknowledge my self to be fully satisfied contented and paid: Have 
freely and absolutely bargained and sold alienated enfeoffed and confirmed 
and by these presents do bargain sell alienate enfeofe and confirm from 
me the said James Howland: and my heirs: unto him the said John Gray 
and his heirs executors and assigns for ever; one whole share in all the 
undivided lands in the townships of plimouth and plimton: which said 
share fell to me in my own Right (excepting only my right belonging to 
said share in the lands set apart for a sheepfold in said township) : 
To have and to hold all my aforesaid whole share in all the undivided 
lands in the aforesaid townships of plimouth and plimton (excepting what 
is above excepted) with all and singular the profits priviledges and appur- 
tenances thereunto belonging: from me the said James Howland and my 
heirs unto him the said John Gray and his heirs executors administrators 
and assigns for ever: with all my whole right title and Interest of and 
unto the same: and every part and parcel thereof: To belong and apper- 
tain unto his only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said John 
Gray and his heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever: free 
and Quit and Clearly acquitted & discharged of and from all other and 
former gifts: grants: bargains sales Leases mortgages and all other Incum- 
brances whatsoever: Warranting that at the time of the signing and seal- 
ing hereof I have good right full power & LawfuU authority in myself 
to dispose of the abovesaid premises with their appurtenances and Every 
part and parcel thereof as is above Expressed: and do by these presents 
warrant the sale of the same against all persons whatsoever that in by 
or under me or any other way shall lay any legal claim title or intrest 



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of or unto the same: in witness whereof I the aforesaid James Howland 
have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of June one 
thousand seven hundred and twelve: 171 2 



Signed Sealed & delivered 
in the presence of us 



James howland 



(Seal) 



Samuel fuller 
Samuel fuller iuner 



Plymouth Ss June the 18'*^: 171 2 the above named 
James howland appeared and acknowledged the above 
written Instrument to be his act and deed before me the 
subscriber one of her maiesties justices for the county 
above s'^. 

Seth Arnold 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF WILLIAM CROWE 

An Inventory of the goods of William Crowe 
September: 15: 1671: 

/. s. d. 

Imprimis his wcaringe apparel! 02-11-00 

Item in money 00-06-00 

Item two Cowcs 06-00-00 

Item a brasse kcttell : and one kittell 00-15-00 

Item two Iron potts & pot hangers . ; 00-16-00 

Item tramell frying pan & grid Iron 00-08-00 

Item a fire pan & tongs: 00-06-00 

Item in Iron tooles 00-05-00 

Item in pewter & latten pans 00-08-00 

Item in timber vesselles 00-12-00 

Item in payles trayes & dishes 00-12-00 

Item: one chest & one boxe 00-06-00 

Item: two spinninge wheales 00-08-00 

Item: a bible & 3 books more 01-00-00 

Item: other smale things not prised before 00-03-00 

14-10-00 

Item the houselot & housinge : 40-00-00 

Item: an akcr & halfc of meadowe : 07-10-00 

Item: 9 akers of land 05-00-00 

Item: 22 akers of land 10-00-00 

62-10-00 



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This Inventory taken by us whose 
names are underwritten: June: 14: 1672 
WiUi harvey 
Walter Deane 
the marke of Aron knap 
william wetherel 

Since the aforesaid goods were prised there hath 

Appeared these particulars 

/. s. d. 

Item one Swine 00-15-00 

In woole: 10 pounds of woole 00-10-00 

In flaxe 00-10-00 

Item one hat one smothing Iron & one Iron hammer 00-06-00 

In pewter 00-03-00 

Ane Evans took her oth to y"^ truth of this invitory 
this 17 day of June 1672 befor me 

Constant Southworth Asist. 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel: Morton Secretary see booke 
of Wills and Inventoryes Recorded folio 47/ 



DEED OF JOHN GRAY TO SAMUEL GRAY 

This Indenture made & concluded the 26^ day of June Annoque 
Dom. 1715 between John Gray of Plimouth in the County of Plimouth 
yeoman of the one part & Samuel Gray of Plimouth afores'^ only son 
of the afores"^ John Gray of the other part Witnesseth That whereas the 
s'^ John Gray stands seized & Possessed of thirty acres of land sittuate 
lying & being at or near a place Called smelt pond in Plimouth afores 
which he purchased of James Barnabas as by his Deed bearing date the 
II*'' day of May 1702 Reference thereunto being had for the more Par- 
ticular Demonstration of the bounds of the same & also of twenty six 
acres more of land being part of his own lot lying near the said thirty 
acres. And whereas the said Samuel Gray stands seized & Possessed of 
two lots of land laid out to him by the surveyors in the town of Plimouth 
near Smelt brook in Plimouth. Containing in both lots fifty five acres 
and a half Reference being had to the Records of the said Town for the 
more Particular demonstration of the same And the said Partys being 
minded to make An Exchange one with the other of the said Lotts The 
said John Gray hath Given granted Bargained sould Infeofed & Confirmed 
unto the said Samuel Gray his heires & assignes & by these Presents doth 



loo THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

fFreely fully & absolutely Give Grant Bargane sell Alien Infeof & Confirm 
unto the said Samuel Gray his heirs & assignes all the afores'' thirty acres 
of land & all the afires'' twenty acres of Land lying being butted & bounded 
as in & by the said Deeds expressed & other Records of the said twenty 
acres is Expressed Reference thereunto being had To have & to hold to 
him the said Samuel Gray his heires & assignes for Ever: In Exchange 
for the aforcs*^ two Lotts containing fifty five acres & a half. And the 
said Samuel Gray hath Given Granted bargained sould Infeofed & Con- 
firmed And by these p''sents doth freely fully and absolutely Give Grant 
bargaine sell Infeof & Confirm unto the said John Gray all the afores'' 
fifty five and a half acres of land lying butted & bounded as in the afores'' 
Town Records is set down & expressed & Reference thereunto being had 
To have & To Hold to him the said John Gray his heires & assignes for 
Ever. In Exchange for the afores'^ thirty acres and twenty acres. In 
witness whereof the Partys to these Indentures have Enterchangeably 
set their hands and seals the day & year abovewritten. 

Signed Sealed & Delivered 

in the p''sence of us Samuel Gray (Seal) 

Thomas Croade his X mark 

Nathaniel Thomas 

Plim Ss on the 22 of September 171 5 the 
abovenamed Samuel Gray acknowledged the 
above written Instrument to be his act & 
deed before me Nathaniel Thomas Justice 
of Peace 



RECEIPT FROM HARLAKENDEN SYMONDS 

Witnesseth these p''sents that I Harlakcnden Symonds as true 
and lawfull Aturny to John Pollerd of Belchamp S' Pauls in the County 
of Essex in England, doe fully clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge 
William fford sen'' now of Marshfeild in New Plymouth in New England 
and his heirs executors and administrators forever from all debts, dues, 
and demands respecting all rents or arrearages of rents that are or have 
bine at any time due unto George Pollard Sometimes of Duxbury in New 
England aforesaid millwright or his heirs respecting the use, improvement 
occupation, and tenure of the moycty of a mill and other lands of the 
s'^ Pollerd hyred of him as by indentures of the two and twentyeth of 
July 1642: I say I doc for the sum of five pounds and ten shillings by 
the s"^ fforde to mee in hande p'', fully and absolutely free acquitt and dis- 
charge him the s^ fforde and his heirs and Execut" for ever from debts 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK loi 

and dues unto the above mentioned Pollerd his heirs Execut" or Assignes 
respecting the above mentioned Alill: 

In witness wherof I have here unto set my hande and Seale this 
seventeenth daye of Decemb'' Anno. Dom: 1671: 
in presence of 

[Names of witnesses cut out.] 

harlakinden Symonds [Seal cut out] 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF HENRY ROWLY 

A true Inventory of the estate of Henry Rowly of 
Suckienesset deceased, viz 

A debte of Twenty nine pounds due fro Jonathan Hatch upon y" repurchase 
of A pcell of land w'^^y* said Hatch sold to Henery Rowly w"" that limitatio /. s. d. 
pvided ..." 29-0-0 

on the oath of Moses Rowley 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order p me 
Nathaniel Morton Secretary to the Court for the 
Jurisdiction of Plymouth See the booke of Wills and 
Inventoryes folio 93 



SUIT OF JOSEPH BENSON vs. JONATHAN HUNTER 
JOSEPH EDWARDS AND JOSEPH SAUNDERS 

Plymouth Ss George by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France 
& Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. 

To y" Sherriff or Marshall of our County of Plymouth His under 
Sheriff Deputy Greeting . . . 

We Command you that you Sumon Jonathan Hunter, blacksmith, 
Joseph Edwards and Joseph Saunders Husbandmen all of Rochester in 
our County of Plimouth if they may be found in your precinct to appear 
before our Justices of our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be holden 
at Plymouth within And for said County of Plymouth on the third Tuesday 
of September next Then and there in our said Court to Answer Unto 
Joseph Benson of Rochester in the County of Plymouth Husbandman In a 
plea of Trespass and Ejectment And is for that the Defts have illegally 
Entered unto and unjustly Do Refuse to Deliver unto y^ plf- the posses- 
sion of one Compleat half part of the fifteenth Lot of Salt Meadow or 
Marsh Land lying and being in the Township of Rochester affores"^ in y^ 
County Affor'^es on y^ Easterly side of Wawwayantik River: And is part 
of ( . . . ) Devision the whole Lot Contains by estimation four Acres: 
be the same more or less. And is Butted and Bounded as follows, Viz 



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Beginning at a Pitch Pine tree marked fifteen, sixteen from thence to a 
stake at y* Cove Southwest Marked fifteen Sixteen or however — otherwise 
the s^ Lot is Bounded Easterly by Agawam River Northerly by the four- 
teenth Lot of Salt meadows or Marsh Land Westerly by upland Belonging 
to the s^ Joseph Saunders. Southerly by the Sixteenth Lot of Salt Aleadow 
or Marsh Land which Said half part of the sayd fifteenth Lot with its 
Apurtenances was heretofore y^ estate of one Thomas Dexter who Being 
thereof Seized in fee by his Deed Under his hand & seal Baring date the 
fourth day of March one Thousand Seaven hundred Well Executed accord- 
ing to Law Sould And Conveyed the affores*^ half part of s'^ 15: Lot. 
with its Appurtenances in fee to the plant. Affs*^ Deed in Court Read 
yf° be produced will Appeare: So that y^ pit to the befores'' half part of 
the said fifteenth Lot of Salt Meadow or Marsh Land with its Appurte- 
nances is Well Entituled And ought to be in y*^ possession of the Same: 
Yet nevertheless the Defts Being Ilegally Deliver they Do Unjustly Deny 
and Refuse : tho Requested by the Pit. the possession of the Same to 
him to Deliver. To y^ Damage of the s'* Joseph Benson as he Saith the 
sum of Twenty Pounds, which shall then and their be made to Appear 
With other due Damages And have you their this Writt with your Doings 
therin 

Witness John Cushing Esq."' at Plym° the sixteenth Day of August 
In the 13th year of our Reign annoque Domini 1726 

John Winslow Clerk 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN BARNES 

A true Inventory of the estate of M"' John Barnes lately de- 
ceased taken and aprised by us whose names are underwritten this 30th 
day of August Ann° Dom 1671 as followeth 

/. J. d. 

Impr^. his apparel! one [Parropus] Coate co-15-00 

Item a sadcullcrcd Carscy suite 01-15-00 

Item a broadcloth Coate 01-00-00 

It. a serge hcire Cullcrcd suite 01-05-00 

It. a gray serge Coate 01-00-00 

It. a broadcloth suite and a troopers Coate all of them worne 01-10-00 

It. a great Russed Cloth Coate 01-05-00 

It. 2 old troopers Coates and an old paire of briches 01-05-00 

It. 3 Red wascoates 00-18-00 

It. 4 paire of drawers 00-18-00 

Ite. a night upcr garment and a tufted fustian wascoate 00-07-00 

Item 3 old dublctts 00-12-00 

Item 3 paire of wosted stockcns 00-10-00 

Item 6 paire of stockens i of them holiand 00-10-00 



1 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 103 

/. J-. d. 

Item a black dcmicaster of the new fashion; & i old satten capp . . . 00-12-00 

Item 2 Cullerd hatts 00-06-00 

Itm 4 old hatts 00-04-00 

Item 2 new Cullered hatts 00-10-00 

Item I hatt more 00-02-06 

Item 5 blacke silke hatt bands 00-03-00 

Item 2 paire of Cotton gloves and 2 paire of lether gloves fringed . . 00-07-00 

Item I Remnant of sad cullered cloth in bitts and one pair of gater lashes . 00-05-00 

Item a paire of mittens and a paire of blacke Garters 00-01-00 

Item 2 dowlis shirts almost new 00-16-00 

Item 2 shirts more 00-16-00 

Ite. 2 shirts more 00-10-00 

Ite: half a dozen of bands and band stringes and an old wrought capp. . 00-12-00 

Item a silk neckcloth. 

His cash. 

Item 10^ sent into the bay by George Watson and by him Returned: . 00-10-00 

Item in cash more which we find exstant 05-08-07 

Item a set of silver buttons and a silver thimble 00-06-00 

Item 7 whole silver spoones and 2 broken ones 03-04-00 

Item a silver bason 03-00-00 

Item a silver beer bowle 03-00-00 

Item a silver dram cupp:& 2 other small peeces of broken silver . . . 00-16-00 

Item a smalc psell of Gould and silver case 00-03-00 

Item a knot of silver buttons 00-03-00 

Item 2 bibles one English and another Indian 01-00-00 

Ite old Psalme booke and 2 other old bookes 00-01-06 

Item 3 Cowes 07-10-00 

his cattle 

Item 2 two year old steeres 03-10-00 

Item a Calfe 00-10-00 

Item 27 sheep 09-00-00 

Item 4 mares and a Colt att p''sent appeering 13-10-00 

his Armour 

Item 2 guns I of them brasse muskett and an other great gun .... 03-00-00 

Item I matchlocke and one another little old gun Carbine 01-08-00 

Item a pistoll 00-06-00 

Item I sword and belt 00-08-00 

Item 2 old daggers and a paire of bandeleeres 00-05-00 

Item a small p'sell of powder 3 powder homes a Cartrich a small powder 

barrell: bullets & shott about a dozen pound 00-06-00 

Item 3 paire of shooes 00-08-00 

Item a paire of bootes 00-10-00 

Brasse in the kitchen 

Item 2 brasse panns oi-io-io 

Item 2 great brasse Kettles 04-00-00 

Item 2 brasse kettles 00-12-00 

Item 4 brasse skilletts i an old one 01-10-00 

Item I warming pann 00-06-00 

Item I Chaffing 00-05-00 

Item a brasse ladle & Candle sticks & a bottom of a warming pan . . . 00-05-00 



I04 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 

Item a copper pestell i mortcr and an other belmettle pestell and morter oi-oo-oo 
Item a brassc skimcr and a little pcecc of a brasse lampe and a pecce of a 

brasse ladle 00-03-00 

Pewter in the Kitchen 

Item 12 Pewter platters 2 of them bigger than the others 03-00-00 

Item 2 great Pewter platters 00-12-00 

Item 7 Pewter platters and smale dishes 00-17-06 

Item 5 basons and a pewter dish 00-14-00 

Item 2 ilaggons and 2 pint potts 01-00-00 

Item 9 porringers 00-09-00 

Item 3 pint potts a half pint pott a quarter of one and an half quarter 00-12-00 

Item I Candle cupp 2 Candle sticks 2 small sawcers and a salt Cellar . 00-09-06 

Item a Cokernutt sett with pewter and an old peece of pewter . . . 00-02-06 
Item 2 old quart potts a wrought salt Cellar 2 great old basons 2 lesser old 

basons 00-14-00 

Item 4 other pewter platters a little sawcer another little old bason 01-00-00 

Item 2 New Chamber potts & 2 old ones 00-07-00 

Item 2 old peeces of old pewter & a bason 00-02-00 

Tinine ware 

Item 2 tinnine kittles and a dripping pann and 2 other old things with an 

apple Tester 00-05-00 

Iron 

Item 2 Iron potts i other little Iron pott with pot hookes 01-10-00 

Item 5 pot hangers " 00-15-00 

Item 2 Iron spitts 2 paire of tongges 2 fier shovells 00-13-00 

Item a paire of Andirons 00-10-00 

Item a paire of Andirons faced with brasse 00-18-00 

Item a paire of smale Andjrons 00-04-00 

Item 3 Iron wedges 4 augers a wrybitt a hand saw an adds a bilhooke 2 sickles 
a drawing knife 3 augers a hatchett 2 marking Irons 3 other axes with- 
out helves a brest wimble 2 Chissells 01-10-00 

Item a thwart saw 2 agers a Cooper adds i Iron — an old box of thingcs to 
mend shooes as aules &c. 2 agers more 2 Gouges 2 hoes a hammer a draw- 
ing knife 3 Cowbells 3 Spades one shovell 01-15-00 

Item a smoothing Iron and heaters 00-02-00 

Item 2 looking glasses and an hourc glasse 00-08-00 

In the Parlour 

Item a pound of thrid a knife and kniting needles 

Item a baggof pepper a pound and halfe of thrid more other small things in 

it 00-06-00 

Item 2 yards of blew linine 00-03-00 

Item 3 little Remnants of Red Cotton 00-03-00 

Item 2 peeces of homspone cloth 00-05-00 

Item pins with a hank of thred a lock and (lasses) and a box .... 00-04-00 

Item woolen yarnc and a baskett in which it is 00-05-00 

Item another bag with cloak buttons in it with tlirid and lasse with 2 papers 

of hooks and eyes and a p''sell of thrid 

Item a smale p''sell of buttons a p''sell of green silke lasse with black Ribbons 

I old hatband and a p'sell of Manchester and a p''sell of tape . 00-03-00 

Item 2 hankes of silke and 40 skeines of silk 00-03-10 



THE PLYA4 0UTH SCRAP BOOK 105 

/. s. d. 

Item a bag with some smale householdments 00-02-00 

Item another little bag with Implements 00-03-00 

Item another little bag with some smale thinges in it 00-01-06 

Item another bag with a smale box in it with a gallypot and a little . . cloth 00-07-00 

Item another little box with a locke and key to it and a bagg of wampum 00-10-00 

Item a Compas diall 00-02-00 

Item another box of things a case with tooth pickes a paire of spectacles with 

a p'sell of Ribband in a bag in which it is oo-il-oo 

THE SAA4E CONCLUDED 

Item 2 hankes 00-08-00 

Item 5 sheets 3 homade and one holland, dowlis 02-10-00 

Item 2 Table clothes 00-15-00 

Item 2 pillowbeers 00-10-00 

In the Parlour 

Item halfe a dozen of Napkins 00-06-00 

Item another damask Napkin 00-01-00 

Item a settle in the Parlour 00-08-00 

Item a paire of stillyardes with scales & a bag of waightes 01-00-00 

Item 15 little glasses 9 little Gaily potts 00-01-06 

Item Tobacco pipes stainds and other lumber 00-03-00 

In the Leanto over the sellar 

Item a Chist 00-08-00 

Item in it halfe a dozen of Napkins 00-06-00 

Item two pillowbeers 00-09-00 

Item a table cloth 00-05-00 

Item 2 towells and Chimney Cloth 00-05-00 

Item a table Cloth and halfe a dozen of Napkins 00-10-00 

Item a paire of sheets Canvas and i Course holland 01-12-06 

Item another Table cloth and halfe a dozen of Napkins 01-06-00 

Item a smale Neckcloth 00-01-06 

Item a feather bed and bolster a Rugg and a paire of sheets, 2 pillows and 

pillow beers on them 13-00-00 

Item the Curtaine and Vallence 00-03-00 

7 Ephagyes or picktures 00-07-00 

Item 2 Iron backes for Chimneyes 01-10-00 

Item a Chist with severall Earthen potts with divers smale thinges in them . 00-05-00 

Item 2 lether Chaires OO-16-00 

Item 2 other Chaires 0O-I2-OO 

Item 2 Joyne stooles 00-05-00 

Item 7 Cushens 00-14-00 

Item a Table and Karpett 01-05-00 

In the Chamber over the Parlour 

Item a paire of Shooes of No 12^ 00-05-00 

Item 12 yards of Cloth OI-IO-OO 

Item 4 yards of blew trading cloth 01-02-00 

Item a green blankett 00-15-00 

Item a blankett of Cape cloth 01-00-00 

Item 4 yards of sacking 00-04-00 

Item a Beare skin i buckskin 00-12-00 



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/. s. d. 

Item a box and Cards and other thinges 00-05-00 

Item I old chist with hobnailcs and other Nailes 01-04-06 

Item more in Nailes 01-00-00 

Item 2 paire of bellowes 00-03-00 

Item a p'sell of sheeps wool 04-03-06 

Item Cotton wool • 00-04-06 

Item a sadle and pannell and another old saddle 01-10-00 

Item a box of drawers with ffish hookes & sparrow bills 00-05-00 

Item lines and Icdds 00-05-00 

Item a pillion saddle 00-10-00 

Item a peece of lether 00-05-00 

Item a fflaskett and a bitt of sayle Cloth 00-05-00 

Item a little case box with a little box in it with an . . . Commoditic in it . 00-02-00 

Item 4 new pothangers i old style and an iron Crow ...... 00-07-00 

Item hopps in a bagg and 2 blankctts 00-15-00 

Item a little hanger for a sword a pair of sheep sheeres and 7 Indian basketts 00-07-00 

Item a chist with Candles in it and a gaily pott 01-00-00 

Item a firkin of Tallow and another old cask with Tallow in it ... 02-00-00 

Item a little thinge with Ginger in it 00-02-00 

Item four little old . . . with six bottles 00-06-00 

Item a old cask 00-04-00 

Item another glasse Case with 9 bottles in it 00-04-00 

Item a firkin with hogsfatt and i earthen pot 00-10-00 

Item 2 earthen potts with butter . " 00-15-00 

Item 2 halfe hogsheads 00-05-00 

Item 3 tubbs and three snale old Casks 00-05-00 

Item 6 earthen vessells with an earthen bason 00-05-00 

Item a Cherne & 4 smale Rundeletts 00-05-00 

Item 5 (kimuells) and 6 trayes 00-10-00 

Item I bowle i tunncU dish 2 CheesefTatts i tray 00-05-00 

Item 2 dozen of trenchers 00-02-00 

Ite: andiron driping pan and a gridiron 00-05-00 

Item 2 pitchers 2 earthen potts i Cheescladder a Roling pin .... 00-01-06 

Item 5 pailes a wooden ladle and a spinning wheel 00-10-00 

Item a frying pan and 2 old Casks 00-05-00 

In the middle room 

Item a great scifting trough 4 scives an old one 00-12-00 

Item 4 Chaires i old smale table and 3 Cushens 00-12-00 

Napkins a table clothe a towell 00-06-00 

Item Corne on the Ground 02-00-00 

Item a quire of paper 00-06-00 

Seven Cheese 00-10-00 

Item in the Chamber over the (...) 

Item a feather bed 2 bolsters a pillow 2 blanketts 

I Rugg I paire of sheets & a Cortaine Rod & Cortaine 10-00-00 

Item another feather bed and a bolster and Rugg 03-00-00 

Item an old pillow 00-02-06 

Item a bagg 00-02-00 

Item in a half pipe about 5 bushells of Indian Corn 00-16-00 

Item a hogshead of feathers and barrell of feathers 02-10-00 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 107 

/. /. d. 

Item another half pipe and 3 old barrells 00-08-00 

Item a hogshead a barrell a halfebushell and a Cart Saddle 00-05-00 

Item a meal trough a seine a bagg and a bushell of Indian Corne in it 3 Caskes 

& Rye in them about five bushells and a halfe 01-06-00 

Item a baskett and woole and three lines i old Coller i old Lanthorne & other 

old lumber 00-10-00 

Item a share and coulter a spade and a plaine a pickaxe a vvrybitt a smooth- 
ing plaine and old iron 00-12-00 

a forme and a Chaire table 00-10-00 

in the little Roome att the south end of the house 

Item 2 Venice glasses 3 other glasses i stone Jugg 3 earthen potts another 
white Gaily pott a drinking pott another drinking pott a pewter tunnell 
a little white bottle and a white drinking cupp and other old earthen 

ware 00-07-00 

Item a feather bed two bolsters 2 pillowes 2 blanketts a Coverlid and a paire 

of sheets a Curtaine Red Curtaines and vallence 10-00-00 

Item a Course pillow beare with a sheet & some other linnen .... 01-10-00 

Item an old Chist with some old thinges in it 00-05-00 

Item a Chist 00-10-00 

Item in this chist a Canvas sheet 00-05-00 

Item 7 Napkins a little table Cloth 2 towells 00-11-00 

Item another Canvas sheet a paire of drawers and 2 Capps 00-08-00 

Item a paire of Cotton sheets 00-10-00 

Item another paire of Cotton sheets 00-15-00 

Item a Table Cloth and a towell a table Cloth and a Canvas pillow beer . 00-10-00 

Item a paire of Canvas sheets 01-00-00 

Item a trundle bedsted with a feather bed a bolster 3 blanketts a little 

Rugg 05-10-00 

Item a window Curtaine and about 2 pound of woolen yearne .... 00-03-00 

Item a pillion 00-10-00 

Item a blankett 00-10-00 

Item 2 milk panns 9 earthen potts a grindstone 00-14-00 

a sun diall 3 hoes a (...) a sheet and a table cloth 01-14-00 

In the bake house 

An Iron pott 2 tubbs a paile i old hogshead 2 old barrells and an halfe 

bushell 01-00-00 

Item without dors a paire of wheels and a Cart 01-00-00 

In the slaughter house 

I old shovell 2 pichforkes I dungforke an old winnow sheet a latter a . . . of 

barly 00-12-00 

Item without doors 

Item a pitchforke & some spikes 01-00-00 

Item 14 boards 01-00-00 

Item a tubb 2 boards & a wooden shovell 00-05-00 

In the ware house 

Item a barrell and a halfe of salt 01-00-00 

Item 9 empty barrells 3 of them tarr barrells and 2 hogsheads .... 01-10-00 

Item a . . . cask with Ginger in it 01-00-00 

Item a cask with lime in it 00-05-00 

Item a bagg with Cotton wool in it 01-00-00 



io8 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s. d. 
Item a peece of an old Grapnell hemp and oates i old (...) 3 old casks 

a bushell of oates and halfe a bushell of Indian Corne .... 00-06-00 

besides 4 yards of Cotton and woolen Cloth 06-06-00 

Item 2 dosen of hoes Chayers 01-06-00 

50-19-01 



24-07-04 
38-14-06 
38-00-00 
72-00-00 
02-16-00 
226-18-08 
Aprised by us 

Nathaniel : Morton 

John Morton 

Gyles Rickard Senor 

Samuell donham 

Mistris Barnes before shee took oath did mension about seaven 
pound of English money not in the Inventory above mentioned; and a 
broken . . . that was broken with a Chaine in which shee hangs her . . . 
of which shee made a smale Cup . . . that is extant and a brake to 
brake flax ; 

This Inventory is Reccorded according to order 
p me Nathaniel: Morton Secretary see book of 
Wills and Inventoryes Recorded folio 31; 32: 33: 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF THOMAS DOTEN 

An inventary of the estate of Thomas doten deseased taken the 
28 day of January by us whose names are underwritten 

/. s. d. 

It 2 Cows and i Calfe and 4 Swine 05-12- o 

It his wearing clothes 03-16- o 

It peuter and brase and Iron ware 02-02- o 

It 2 chests and a box 00-14- o 

It earthen ware trenchers and spoons and glasses 00-07-00 

It armes and amunition 01-13- ° 

It bookes 00-04- o 

It 25 pounds of sheeps wool and 19 pounds of Cotton wool .... 01-05- - 

It lines and rods and hookes and i splitting knife 00-08- o 

It butts and old casks payls and tubs 00-15- o 

It Chaines and sifting trough and an old box 00-05- o 

It I sheet and 6 napkins and I blanket and other old linnen 01-01- o 

It I paire of boots 00-12- o 

It I spade I ax and i paire of pitchfork tyne and other old Iron 00-06- o 

It 3 old bags I paire of Cards and i looking glas 00-03- o 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 109 

/. s. d. 

It I pound of feathers 00-10- o 

It Debts du from the Estat at Boston to John pool 01-04- o 

00-12- 4 

. . . Wing 00-13- 6 

. . . farman 00-16- 9 

du from the estat at plymoth 

to Mr. Thomas Clarke 01-10- o 

to George Watson 01-10- o 

to John Churchill 00-10- o 

to John Bryant Senior 00-07- o 

to Abraham Jackson 00-16- o 

This Inventory is Recorded 
Ephraim morton according to order p mee 

will harlow Nathaniel: Morton Secretary 

for the Jurisdiction of Plymouth 
on the oath of Mary doten see book of Wills and Invent- 

oryes folio 33 



BOND OF JOHN CHIPMAN AND JOHN TOMSON 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee John Chipman of the 
Towne of Barnstable in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America yeoman and John Tompson of the Towne aforsaid in the Juris- 
diction aforsaid yeoman ; doe acknowlidg our selves to be bound and 
feirmly obliged unto the Gov"^: and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the just 
sume of fifty pounds for the payment wherof well and truely to be made 
wee bind our selves our heires executors and adminestrators Joyntly and 
severally feirmly by these p''sents sealed and Given this fourth day of 
July Ann°: Dom. one thousand six hundred seaventy and two ; 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden M'' John Chipman hath obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to Adminester on the estate of Thomas Shawe of Barnstable above- 
said deceased if therefore the said John Chipman shall and do pay all 
debts and legacies due and owing unto any from the said estate and save 
and keep harmles and undamnified the said Gov'': and Court ffrom any 
damage that may accrew unto them by the said Adminestration from time 
to time and at all times; and keep a faire and just accompt of his Adminis- 
tration and be Reddy to Give in a true accompt therof when therunto 
Required by the said Court that then the above written obligation to be void 
and of none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue. 
Signed sealed and delivered 
in the presence of John Chipman (Seal) 

Ephraim morton 

Dan: Smith: John Tomson (Seal) 



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INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF HENRY SANDERSON 

The inventory of y' estate of henry Sanderson 

of Sandwich Taken by us whose names are 

underwritten 
The housing upland and meadow at. 
9 kous 2 oxen 2 stores and a bull at ... 
5 other cattell 4 ycrling & 2 young calvs I hors 

2 Swine and some small piggs 

in silver money 

3 beds with all y' belongs to them & some empty casks & other 
2 chest 2 cups eight spoons and iron thing and other lumber 

about 40 pounds of Cotton & woolen yearne 

for flaxc and other smale things 

in debts due 

the sum totall is 146-I1-00 

Thomas Tupper 
Samuel Briggs 

BOND OF WILLIAM NORCUTT AND EDWARD WANTON 

Know all men by these p''sents that Wee William Norkett of the 
Towne of Marshfeild in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New England 
in America planter and Edward Wanton of the Towne of Scittuate in the 
Jurisdiction aforsaid Shipcarpenter; doe acknowlidge our selves to stand 
ijound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of New Plymouth 
in the penall sume of one hundred pound sterling for the payment wherof 
well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires eixecutors and 
adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p^sents sealed 
and given this first day of June Ann°: dom: one thousand six hundred 
seaventy and two : 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that whereas 
the above bounden William Norkett hath obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to Adminester on the estate of Ralph Chapman late deceased; if 
therefore the said William Norkett shall and doe pay all such debts and 
Legacyes dew and owing to any from the said estate soe farr and by equal 
proportions as the aforsaid estate will amount unto and keep a faire accompt 
of his said adminestration and be Reddy to give in the same when 
therunto Rec^uired by the said Court ; and every way save and keep harm- 
les the said Ciov': and Court from any damage that may accrew unto 
them by the said adminestration from time to time and att all times; 
that then the abovewritten obligation to be void and of none effect; or 
otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue 
Signed sealed and delivered Will: Norcutt (Seal) 

in the p'sence of the marke 

William Crowe of x 

Marke Eames Edward Wanton (Seal) 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK in 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF ROBERT JOANES 

An Inventory of y^ Estat of Robbert Joanes 
decesed vvich is in lynn in y^ massachusets 
Collony & in Swanza in y*^ Collony of plimouth 

Apprized by Edward bacon Joell Jenkins Zakery (Eddy) & Thomas Estor- 
brooke as followeth viz: 

/. s. d. 

Too feather beds one bolster & too pillowes at 02-05 

five sheats & too old ruggs at 01-15 

Thre puter platters & one putter flagon at 01-00 

Thre bras Cettells one bras ladell & one ... at 02-15 

one Iron Cettell: one: Trambill: one friing pan 00-15 

one ff^oulling pece 

one box: 2 Axes & plowes lyrons 

one pare of horses traces : & hookes 

one draft chane: & hookes 

one pare of hookes & pins & fork 

one sieth & wedes 

forty Acors of uplandes : at Twenty shil 

five Acors of salt marsh 10-00 

Two Cowes : & a Calf 08-00 

Thre Tow yer old sters 03-1 5 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOSEPH LUES 

An Invotary of y*^ Estat of Joseph lues desesed 
Apprised : by John Chadwick: &: John floyd & Zakery 
Ede & thomas Estorbrokes as foloweth 

44 Acors of upland : at Tinn shilins p"' acor 22-00-00 

Tow: Cowes: & a Calf: 05-00-00 

I feather bed one : pare :of sheets :too pillows 01-08-00 

I Rugg: & a pare of Curtains:& vallence:& a Chist: 01-08-00 

plow: Irons: one box: &: a Cetell: &: a fring pann 00-19-00 

a pale: &: a: sive: & old lumber 00-07-04 

These Inventoryes are Recorded 
according to order p mee Nathaniell 
Morton Secretary to the Court and Juris- 
diction of New Plymouth see booke of Wills 
and Inventoryes Recorded folio 68/ 



BOND OF SAMUEL WOOD, ALIAS ATWOOD 

Know all men by these p''sents that I Samuel Wood allies 
Attwood of the Towne of Middleberry in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in 
New England in America yeoman : do acknowlidge my self to be bound 



112 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

and feirmly obliged unto the Gov"": and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the 
penall same of one hundred pound sterling : for the payment wherof 
well and truly to be made I doe heerby bind my self my heirs executors 
and Adminestrators feirmly by these p''sents sealed and Given the ij*** 
day of ffebruary Ann°: dom. one thousand six hundred seaventy and three 
The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Samuel! Wood allies Attwood is by the Court of his 
Ma"* holden att Plymouth the 29''' of October 1693 Ensated into the estate 
of the lands Goods and Chattels of John Wood allies Attwood of Middle- 
berry aforsaid deceased ; if therefore the said Samuell Wood doe pay or 
cause to be payed all such debts as are due or owing unto any p''son or 
p ons from the said estate and keep a faire accompt of his actings therin 
and be Reddy to give in an accompt therof when Required by the Court; 
and likewise that hee the said Samuell Wood allies Attwood doe assure 
Ratify and Confirme unto his two youngest brothers the sonnes of henery 
Wood allies Attwood deceased ; Named Abiell Wood allies Attwood and 
James Wood allies Attwood forty acres of land in the best of the upper 
end of the lott of land which the said John Wood allies Attwood died 
possessed off; To the said Abiell and James to each of them a like pro- 
portion therof; that then the above written obligation to be void and of 
non effect or otherwise to Remaipe in full force strength and vertue; 

Signed sealed and delivered 
in p''sence off 

The marke The marke of 

of George x Morton Samuell x Wood Allies Atwood (Seal) 

The marke of 
X Richard Willis 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF [JOHN AIORTON] 

An In ... y of the goods & estate of [John Morton] deseased of the 
Towne of Middlebery taken . . . 

T s T-' I- S. d. 

Imp : Iwo oxen 

It: Two Cowes 

This Summer Calfe 

It: one heifer & one bull. of five years old apeice . . . young mare . i-io 

seaven young, swine 4-0 

A feild of Indian Corne conteyning fower Acres 12-0 

Of bareley & Rye ten bushells l-io 

Cart & Wheeles ypkes & Chaines plow & Tackling 2-0 

Timber & bolts prepared for a barne 2-10 

A parcell of Bookes 2-0 

Pewter & Brass 4-0 

Iron potts & Kettles & frying pan I-O 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 113 

/. s. d. 

Earthen ware & wooden ware 0-0 

A musquet 0-0 

Tubs & barrells 0-0 

Tables chests & chaires & fformes 0-0 

Beds & beding 6-0 

Pair of sheets . 2 paire pellowbes napkins & Towells 2-0 

Trundell bedstead & 2 paire of spining wheels 0-0 

Wearing Aparell showes stockings hatts 6-1 

in Linnen as shirtes caps handkercheifs i-o 

New cloth & wooll 5-0 

An old Saddle pommell sieves & other lumber 0-0 

Hammer looking glass. hower glass 0-0 

A paire of new stockings 0-0 

80 o 
on the oath of Lettice Mor [ton] 
Prysed by us 
Jonathan Dunham . 
Georg Vaughan. 
John Nelson. This Inventory is Recorded 

p'' me Nathaniel AI . . . 

flfor the Juris . . . 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN DOGED 

An inventory of the Estate of John Doged of Plymouth 16 of mar/ 
1673 as followeth 

/. s. d. 

1 bible and psalm :booke 00-10-00 

his wearing Cloths and i hat 03-06-00 

his mony 00-17-00 

his wearing linnen 01-00-00 

2 paire of gloves 00-03-00 

2 paire of sheets 01-10-00 

3 yds of new linnen 00-07-06 

2 Chests 01-00-00 

3 peeses of pewter and 4 spoones 00-06-03 

3 kettles and i candle stike 01-10-00 

I Iron pot and pot hookes and pot hangers 00-15-00 

I Iron skillet one paire of andirons and fire shovle and tongs .... 00-17-00 

1 old ax and hand saw 00-02-06 

8 bags and i small box and i old Sive 00-12-00 

2 small beare Casks and 2 tubs 00-06-00 

I fring pan and a butter pot 00-02-00 

I set worke runlet and other lumber 00-05-00 

I pare of bellows and a Chamber pot 00-04-00 

5 shots 00-10-00 

1 Cuberd i paire of Cards & 2 glas bottles 00-07-00 

2 Chaires and 4 stools with other lumber 00-12-00 



114 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

/. s d. 

I wollen wheele 00-06-00 

3 Connckes 0015-00 

Debets du to the estate 00-07-00 

Debts du from the estate 00-16-00 

funneral Charges 00-19-04 

prysed by us whose names ar under written the 28 of may 1673 

Ephraim Morton 

Andrew Ring on the oath of Bathsheba Doged widdow 

This Inventory is Recorded according 
to order p'' me Nathaniell M . . . 
Secretary to the Court ... of New 
Plymouth see . . . Inventoryes Recorded . . 



BOND OF JOHN TAYLOR AND JOHN GORUM 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee John Taylor of Yar- 
mouth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England planter and John 
Gorum of the Towne of Barnstable in the Jurisdiction aforsaid yeoman; 
and John Thacher of Yarmouth aforsaid yeoman; doe acknowlidg our 
selves to be bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of 
Plymouth aforsaid in the penall sume of two hundred pound for the pay- 
ment wherof well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires 
executors and Administrators Joyntly and severally feirmly sealed and 
Given this 4''' day of March Ann°: dom: 1673 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden John Taylor, John Gorum and John Thacher have 
obtained Letters of Administration to administer on the estate of Richard 
Taylor late of Yarmouth deceased; if therefore the said p'ties viz: John 
Taylor John Gorum and John Thacher; shall and due pay all such debts 
and legacyes as are due and owing unto any from the said estate soe farr 
and by equall proportions it will amount unto and keep a faire accompt 
of their said administration and be Reddy to give in the said accompt 
unto the Court when by them Required, and save and keep harmles the 
said Gov"": and Court from any damage that may accrew unto them; by 
their said Administration; That then the above written obligation to be 
void and of none effect or otherwise to Remaine in full force strength 
and vertue; 

Signed sealed and delivered 
in the p'"sence off 



Marke Eames 
Isak Chapman 



Joohn Taylor 
John Gorum 



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THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 115 

BOND OF JOANNA AMMADOWNE 

Know all men by these p'sents that wee Joanna Ammadowne 
widdow . . . towne of Rehoboth in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New 
England and John Harrud of Patuckset in the Jurisdiction of Providence 
Plantation yeoman . . . acknowlidge ourselves to be bound and feirmly 
obliged unto the Gov', and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the penall sume 
of threescore pounds sterling for the payment wherof well and truely 
to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors and adminestrators 
Joyntly and severally, feirmly by these presents sealed and Given this 
third day of March Ann°: one thousand six hundred seaventy and three; 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras the 
above bounden Joanna Ammadowne hath obtained of the Court of Plym- 
outh aforsaid,Letters of Adminestration to Adminester on the estate 
of Roger Ammadowne of Rehoboth aforsaid deceased; if therefore the said 
Joanna Ammadowne shall and doe pay or cause to be payed all such 
debts as are owing unto any, out of the said estate, soe farr and by equall 
proportions as the said estate will amount unto and keep a fayer accompt 
of her said adminestration, and be Reddy to give in said accompt: when 
shee is Required by the said Court , and also save and keep harmles the 
said Gov"" and Court from any damage that may accrew unto them, by 
her said adminestration at any time that then the above written obliga- 
tion shalbe void and off non effect, or otherwise to Remaine in full force 
strength and vertue; 

Signed Sealed and delivered 

in the p''sence off The mark 

John Cobleigh of Joanna X 

The marke X of Amadowne (Seal) 

Thomas Wilmott John harrud (Seal) 



BOND OF HANNAH, NATHANIEL AND SAMUEL BACON 

Know all men by these p'sents that wee hannah Bacon widdow of 
the Town of Barnstable In the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England 
and Nathaniel Bacon and Samuell Bacon of the same place doe acknowlidge 
our selves to be bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of 
Plymouth aforsaid in the penall sume of seaven hundred pound; for the 
payment wherof well and truely to be made wee bind our selves our heires 
executors and adminestrators Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p''sents 
sealed and Given this first day of November Ann°: dom one thousand 
six hundred seaventy and three 1673 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden, have obtained letters of Adminestration to adminester 



ii6 



THE PLYiMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 



upon the estate of M^ Nathaniel: Bacon Seni/ deceased; if therefore they 
the abovebounden Mist"' hannah Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Jun"^: and 
Samuell Bacon shall and doe pay all such debts and legacies as are due 
and owing from the said estate and keep a faire accompt of theire admin- 
estration and be Reddy to Give in the said accompt unto the Court when 
by them Required: and save and keep harmles and undamnifyed the said 
Gov*": and Court from any damage that may accrew unto them by their 
said adminestration that then this obligation be void and of non effect or 
otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue 



Signed sealed and delivered 


The mark x 




this second of November 1673/ 


of hannah 


(Seal) 


John Barker 


Bacon 




Jonathan Delano 


Nathaniel Bacon 


(Seal) 




Samuel Bacon 


(Seal) 



BOND OF EPHRAIM TILSON 

Know all men by these p'"sents that I Ephraim Tilson of Plym- 
outh in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth, doe acknowlidge myself 
bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov"': and Court of Plymouth afor- 
said, in the penall sume of twenty six pound for the payment wherof well 
and truely to be made I bind my self my heires executors and admines- 
trators, feirmly by these p''sents sealed and Given this 29'^'' day of October 
1673 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Ephraim Tilson hath, obtained letters of Admines- 
tration to adminester on the estate of John Tilson late of Plymouth afor- 
said deceased; if therefore the said Ephraim Tilson shall and doe pay all 
such debts and legacies as are due unto any from the said Estate , and 
keep a faire accompt of his said Adminestration, and be Reddy to give in 
his said accompt unto the said Court when therunto Required by them, 
and save and keep harmles the said Gov'': and Court from any damage 
that may accrew unto them by his said adminestration that then the 
above written obligation to be void and of non effect, or otherwise to 
Remaine in full force strength and vertue; 



Signed sealed and delivered 
in p'"sence off 
George EUistone 

The marke 
of Ester x Wright 



The mark 

of Ephraim x Tilson (Seal) 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 117 

BOND OF RICHARD BOWEN 

Know all men by these p''sents that I Richard Bowin Juni'' of the 
Towne of Rehoboth in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth in New 
England in America planter doe acknowlidge myself to Stand bound and 
feirmly obliged unto y^ Gov'': and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the penall 
sume of two hundred pounds for the payment of which said sume well 
and truely to be made I bind mee my heires executors and adminestrators 
Joyntly and secerally feirmly by these p''sents sealed and Given this third 
day of Anarch Ann°. dom: 1674/ 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Richard Bowin hath obtained Letters of Adminestra- 
tion to Adminester on the Estate of Richard Bowine Sen"": of Rehoboth 
aforsaid, late deceased; if therefore the said Richard Bowin Jun'': shall 
and doe pay all such debts and legacys as are due and owing unto any 
from the said estate; soe farr and by equall proportions as the estate afor- 
said will amount unto; and save and keep harmles and undamniiied the 
aforsaid Gov"": and Court from any damage that may accrew to them or 
any of them by his said Adminestration and keep a faire accompt therof 
and be Reddy to Give in the said accompt to them when by them Required, 
that then the above written obligation to be voyd and of non effect, or 
otherwise to Remaine in full force strength and vertue 

Signed sealed and delivered 

in the p''sence off Richard Bowen (Seal) 

William Smith 
John Ormsby 

DEED OF SAMUEL WOOD, ALIAS ATWOOD 

To all to whom these p''sents shall Come Samuell Wood Alius 
Atwood the Sonne of Henry Wood alius Atwood Deceased of the Towne 
of Middlebery in the CoUoney of New Plymouth in New England in 
America Sendeth Greeting Knowe Yee that wheras my said father Henry 
Wood alius Atwood did for and in consideration of the Sum of five pounds 
Sterling payed unto him in his Life-time by Edward Gray of the Towne 
of New Plymouth in the CoUoney Afforesaid. Bargaine and Sell unto him 
the said Edward Graye All his share and Interest in A Necke of Land 
Called Punckatest and all his Right and Interest of and into a Graunt of 
Land; Adjoining therunto; the Bounds or Extent therof was Determined 
by Capt Miles Standish and M'' John Browne as by Retorne may Appeare 
Nowe Knowe Yee that I the said Samuell Wood alius Atwood for and in 
Consideration of the Afforesaid Sume of five Pounds payd unto my father 
in his Lifetime by Edward Graye afforesaid wherwith I doe acknowledge 



ii8 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

myself to be fully Satisfide Contented and Payd and therof and of every 
part and percell therof doe by these p''sents Acquit, Exonerate and Dis- 
charge the said Edward Graye: hee; his heires Executors and Adminis- 
trators and Every of them forever have freely and Absolutely Given, 
Graunted, Alienated Enfeofed and Confirmed And as my said father did 
Bargainc and sell the Afforesaid Premises Soe I Doe by these presents give, 
Graunt, Alienate, Enfeoffe and Confirme from mee and my heires unto 
the said Edward Graye he his Heires and Assignes for ever All that 
my Right Title and Interest that I might have or might Claime in that 
one Share of Land Lying in Pautucket neck Divided or undivided; and 
also of the affors"^ Court Graunt Graunted unto the Inhabitants of New 
Plymouth Afforesaid by y*^ Honoured Court of the CoUoney afforesaid 
which was Bounded and Determined by the afforesaid Capt Standish and 
M"" Browne as by Record Dated the twenty six day of June one thousand 
six hundred fifty and three may Appeare: w'^^ Affores'^ Neck of Land 
graunted Lyeth Against Road Island with all and singular the Appurte- 
nances and Priviledges thereunto belonging and all my Right Title and 
Interest of and into the said Premises and every Part and Parcell Thereof 
To have and to hold all that my Afforesaid Right Title and Interest of and 
into the said one share of Land Divided or undivided Lying in Punckatest 
Neck And also of the Afforesaid, Court graunt; Lying as Afforesaid and 
sold by my said father; with all and singular the Appurtenances And 
Priviledges Therunto belonging and all my Right Title and Interest Ther- 
unto belonging and all and Every part and percell therof. unto the said 
Edward Graye his heires and Assignes forever. Free and Cleare and 
Clearely Acquitted and Discharged of all former Bargains sales, Gifts 
Leases Charges and all other Incumbrances whatsoever To be holden as 
of our sovereigne Lord y^ kinge as of his Mannour of East Greenwich in 
the County of Kent within the realme of England in free and Comon 
Soccage and not in capite nor by Knights service by the rents and ser- 
vices therof and thereby due and of right accostomed to the only proper 
use and behofe of him the said Edward Graye his Heires and Assignes 
forever And with warranties against all people for ever by these p''sents 
ffrom by and under mee the said Samuell Wood Alius Atwood my heires 
Executors and administrators and every of them Claiming any right Title 
or Interest of or into the Afforesaid Premises with their Appurtenances 
or any part or percell therof; And I the said Samuell Wood alius Atwood 
doe by these p''sents Authorize the said Edward Graye either by himself 
or his Attorney to record and enrole these p'"sents or cause them to be 
recorded and Enrolled before the Governour of New Plymouth or some 
one of his Assistants ffor the Time being According to the usual Manner of 
Recording and Enrolling of Deeds and Evidences in his said Ma''": 
Court of New Plymouth Afforesaid/ 

In wittnes wherof I the said Samuell Wood Alius Atwood have here 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 119 

unto Sett my hand and scale this sixt day of July one thousand six hun- 
dred seventy and foure 

Signed sealed and Delivered 

in p'sence off Samuell Wood 

John Nelson alius X Atwood (Seal) 

Wn Crowe His marke 

This instrument or deed of Sale was 
acknowledged by Samuell Wood Alius Attwood 
this: 6: day: of July 1674 before me 

Constant Southworth 
Asist 

The within written Deed is Recorded 
in the Book of Deeds enrolled Dated 
1681 page 443 and 444: 

p'' Sam' Sprague Record^ 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOSEPH RAMSDEN 

An Inventory of the goods & estate of Joseph Rams[den] lately 

deseased May 25^*^ 74 Taken this 4*'' July 1674 

/. s. d. 

Imp'', one Cow 2-10- o 

one mare 2-00- o 

one calfe of this yeare 008- o 

2 young swine 0-12- o 

bedding as blanketts and pillows 1-02- o 

2 sheets and one shirt 0-15- o 

one suit of Clothes & pair stockings 0-18- o 

one hatt 002- o 

2 iron potts 0-18-0 

wooden weere 0-05- o 

Iron skillett pott hangers & pott hookes o-io- o 

2 Chests & Chaires c>-09- o 

A spinning wheele 0-03- o 

2 barrells & a sieve 0-05- o 

bolt & shakell & pair pinsers 0-04- 6 

bridle and Cradle 0-02- o 

howes & axes & pitchfork 005- o 

a sith & nibs & pole rings 0-05- o 

A yoke & staple & rip hooke 0-03- o 

A share & culter 0-12-0 

Cart & wheels i-oo- o 

by us 

Hoskins 
Shaw 



I20 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF MATTHEW MACUMBER 

An Inventory of the goods of Matthew Macombcr here in the Town- 
shipc of Tanton: [This side torn off] 

Imp^ on cow at 

itm on hogge 

itm a persell of coopers tooles 

itm 2 sadills at .... 

itm trase hoops not finished . 

itm his cloathes ... 

itm on gun & other small things 

itm 300 of seader bolts at the swamp 

itm hewin timber in the woods 

itm 200 of Coopers stufe in the woods 

Tanton: 27 of disember 1676 

prised by us Samuell Williams 

John Smith 
on the oath of John Macumber / 

BOND OF DESIRE, JAMES AND JOHN GORHAM 

Know all men by these p''sents that wee desire Gorom, widdow 
of the Towne of Barnstable in the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth; and 
James Gorum and John Gorum planters of the Towne aforsaid in the 
Jurisdiction aforsaid doe acknowlidge ourselves to be bound and feirmly 
obliged unto the Gov'': and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the penall 
sume of eight hundred pounds, for the payment of which well and truely 
to be made wee bind our selves our heires executors and adminestrators; 
Joyntly and severally feirmly sealled and Given this ninth of March 
Ann°: dom' one thousand six hundred seaventy and five; 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden desire Gorum; James Gorum and John Gorum; have 
obtained letters of Adminestration to Adminester on the estate qf M'' 
John Gorum Late deceased; if therefore the above bounden desire Gorum 
James Gorum and John Gorum Junr doe pay or cause to be payed all 
due debts and legacyes due and owing to any from said estate; and keep 
a faire accoumpt of their Adminestration; and be Reddy to give in the 
same unto the Court when by them Required; and save and keep harmles 
and undamnifyed the said Gov'': and Court from any damage that may 
acrew unto them by their said adminestration; That then the above written 
obligation to be void and of non effect or otherwise to Remaine in full 
force strength and vertue; 

Signed sealed and delivered desier gorham (Seal) 

in the p'^sence of James Gorham (Seal) 

beniamen hammond John Gorham (Seal) 
Sammuell Nash 















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BOND OF DESIRE, JAMES AND JOHX GORHAM 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 121 

BOND OF JOHN CANN 

ese p''sents that I John Cann of 

England Boatman do owe unto ward 

[This section of the sheet is torn out.] Tyng Esq'' Treasurer of the the 

full and just sume of lawfuU money 
of New England hereof on demand 
I binde my es & Administrato''^ 
firmly by ness my hand and scale 
this ffebr°. 1674/. 

obligation is such that if the above 
bound John Cann shall well and truly Administer upon the estate of 
John Bourne according to law, and be accomptable to the County Court of 
Suffolke when called for, that then this Obligation to bee void and of 
none Effect, or otherwise to stand and bee in full force power and virtue. 
Signed Sealed & Deliv''. Jn°: Cann 

in presence of his marke & a scale : 

Tho Deane This is a true Coppie of the Original 

ffrce Grace Bcndall- bond on file, as attests. Is^ Addington Cl^"". 

BOND OF RICHARD CURTIS 

Know all men by these p''scnts that I Richard Curtice of the 
Towne of Scittuate in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in 
America planter doc acknowlidge myself heerby to Stand bound and fcirmly 
oblidged unto the Gov"": and Court of Plymouth aforsaid in the penall sume 
of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling for the payment wherof well 
and truely to be made I bind my self my heires Executors and admines- 
trators fcirmly by these p''sents; scaled and Given this second day of June 
Ann°: dom: one thousand six hundred seaventy and five 1675/ 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Richard Curtice hath obtained Letters of Admines- 
tration to adminester on the estate of John hoUett of Scittuate aforsaid 
deceased; if therefore the said Richard Curtice shall and doe pay or cause 
to be payed all such debts and Icgacyes as are due and owing to any 
p''son OT p''sons from the said estate; and save and keep harmles the said 
Gov"": and Court from any damage that may accrew to them by the said 
Adminestratlon; and keep a faire accompt therof , and be Reddy to Give 
. . . same when Required thereunto by the said Court; That then the 
above written obligation to be void and of none effect or otherwise to 
Remaine in full force strength and vertue; 
Signed Sealed and delivered 

in the p''sence of Richard Curtis (Seal) 

Steven Vinall 
Samuell Nash 



122 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN COLE 

Portsmouth one Road Island y" 15''' 10"' 1676 

An Invitory of Moveable goods of John Coales decesed in the behalfe 
of v^ Widdow Coale : 

/. s. d. 

\m\f one Bed & bolster; pillow a paire of sheetcs 14-00-00 

one Rugg & three home spun Blankets One homespun Bed one pillow and 

two Bolsters with feathers in them 02-10-00 

Two homspun Covering & a Cradle Covering 01-06-00 

One flock bed Blankets 02-00-00 

Two paire of Sheets one Table Cloth and seven Napkins 02-06-00 

Three pillow Cases w"". the Child bed Lining oi-io-oo 

Pewter & tinn 02-07-00 

One Warming Pan & two Skillits 00-12-06 

One small morter three lorne pots one lorne skillit w"' Trammells & pot 

Hookes 01-05-00 

Three Chests & two Boxes 01-03-00 

Home spun cloth 03-08-00 

Woolen Yarne 01-00-00 

One Pannell & Pilyon 00-10-00 

Carpenters tooles plow Share & Chaine 05-10-00 

More Yarne 01-00-00 

Two sives 00-02-00 

One ox & a Cow: 05-00-00 

One paire of Indiarns Slice tongues & gridiron 01-00-00 

Ten bushells of Indian Corne 01-00-00 

Two Wheles for Spinning 00-07-00 

Three Barrells one tub two pailes & a grindstone 00-14-00 

Woole 00-10-00 

In Mony 04-06-1 1 

One ffrying pan 00-03-00 

43-02-05 
A True Invitory By us: 
Georg Layton 
Robert Hodgson 

on the oath of Alary Cole widdow 

/. s. d. 

Clothes and a gune 05-03-00 

it one oxe 03-07-06 

it to m*^ paine paid 04-00-00 

it one gune at the Hand 00-15-00 

it about 52 akcrs of land & the priv- 

iledges thereto belonging 
it in a brideil & some small lumber 

Due from the Country unto the estate of John Cole 
for Cattle spent att Mount Hope July 1675 
Item a quarter 
Item a bushell 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 123 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JUDAH THACHER 

An Invintari of the [late Judah Thacher] of Yarmouth lately 

decesed taken this 5*'' Janua ... as folloeth: ^ ^ ^ 

Vidd 2 oxen 6''-i2^ & 4 Cowes 14-12-00 

To: 3 young Cattle 3-i5:and 2 Calves 04-07-00 

To: a horse saddle & bridle 3''-io'' 6 Swine 05-00-00 

To: a Cart and the irons belonging to it 01-00-00 

To: a parsell of tobacco 4'': & 3 pigs 04-05-00 

To: 4 bushells of Indian Corn 3'': 20 bushells of English Corne .... 06-10-00 

To: his armes & amunition 20^ :& 5 bushels of oats 10^ 01-10-00 

To: 3 Sheep 18^: to shop tooles: to lumber in the shop 05-08-00 

To: . . . Chains & axes i'' 02-16-00 

To: Cattle & hogs kild for y^ market 12-00-00 

To: 6 bushells of barly 02-08-00 

To: a parsell of books 03-02-00 

To: 2 bushells of ry 7^: and to peutter-i''-2^- 01-09-00 

To: bras pots : skillet & pan 2'' 02-00-00 

To: Iron pots hooks & hangers i'' & spit 2^-6''- 01-02-06 

To: a boxiron 3 : lamp & tosting iron 2^ 00-05-00 

To: a friing pan & sop 12^ 

To: the bed bolster Curtains & vallens & bedstead 05-05-00 

& a little under y* i'' : another bed coverlid & blankets 04-00-00 

To: a cobbard to tables 2 boxes a trunk 01-03-00 

To: holsters & pistols pike Cradle chest bellowes & Chaffing dish . . . 01-02-00 

To: Spinning whels lookingglas Chaers 00-10-00 

To: flax: woole & yarne i" - . . . : a chest 5^: & bedding 02-03-00 

To: a Cart rope & baggs 10^: to : tray & paile & tubs & such smale lumber 

2'' : 18': - 03-08-00 

To: seader boults & slit timber 01-00-00 

To: bees 10^: and to glasing tooles 6^ : - 00-16-00 

To: his wearing apparell 03-19-00 

To: a warming pan fier tonges & slice 00-10-00 

To: Sheets & other linnen 02-00-00 

To: Shot & bullet moulds & a glue pot & nails . 00-07-00 

To: a grind Stone 8^: 00-08-00 

To: . . . lands & housings & meddowes 100-00-00 

... 3 ... K a flax Combe y' 194-05-00 

VVe find also the Estate to be in debt aboute 14-06-10 

a ballance being made of what is dew to y" Estate which debts are 

sum of them unlikely to be got in the sum of which is aboute . 08-06-01 

By us 

John Miller Mary the Relict of y^ said 

Richard Hall Judah Thacher made oath 

to the truth of this bove written 
Inventory this i^' of March 167'^ 
before me Tho^ Hinckley 

Asist 



124 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p mee Nathaniell Morton Secretary to the Court 
for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth; see 
book of Wills and Inventoryes Recorded 
folio 60 ; 



BOND OF SARAH WOOD, ALIAS ATWOOD 

Know all men by these p'"sents that I Sarah Wood allies: 
Attwood widdow of the Towne of Plymouth in the Jurisdiction of New 
Plymouth in New England; doe acknowlidge myself bound and felrmly 
obliged unto the Gov"': and Court of Plymouth aforsaid; in the penall 
sume of three hundred pounds sterling; for the payment wherof well and 
truely to be made I bind my self my heires executors and Adminestrators 
Joyntly and severally feirmly by these p''sents; sealed and Given this tenth 
of May Ann°: dom: 1676- 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Sarah Wood allies Attwood hath obtained Letters of 
Adminestration to adminester on the estate of John Wood seni'' allies 
Attwood deceased; if therefore the said Sarah Wood ; doe pay or cause to 
be payed all debts and legacyes due and owing to any from the estate 
aforsaid soe farr and by equall proportions as it will amount unto; and 
keep a true accompt of her said Adminestration: and be Reddy to give in 
a true accompt therof when Required by the Gov"": and Court aforsaid; 
and save and keep them harmless and undamnifyed from any damage 
that may accrew unto them by her said adminestration; that then the 
abovewritten obligation to be void and of non effect or otherwise to Re- 
maine in full force and vertue; 

Signed sealled and delivered the marke 

in the p''sence of . of x Sarah (Seal) 

Ephraim Morton Wood 

nathaniel wood 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JAMES BELL 

The Inventor}^ of the Estate of James Bell of Tanton deceased 

/. s. d. 

Imprimis his dwelling house and barn 

Item 8 acres of Improved land 

Item 30 acres of dormon Land 

Item 3 acres of niedow 

Item one Cow 2-05- o 

Item 2 steers 5 year old 6-00- o 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 125 

/. /. d. 

It: Plough Iron: & other old Iron, & wedges & one Auger- .... 2-14- 6 

It: tow forks, old axes, one old howe, one old drawing Knife . . . . 0-5-0 

It: a Spit 0-5-0 

I: 2 pots, one Kettle: one Skellit, all Iron 1-17- o 

I: 2 tramills & 2 pot hooks 0-09- o 

I: a Rapier 0-05- o 

I: a gun o-io- o 

I: a frying pan and an old pan without a handle 003- o 

I: pewter and spones 0-05- o 

I: wooden dishes and trayes 0-05- o 

I: stone botle & other smal things 0-02- 6 

I: for hooks 0-06- o 

I: 2 wheels and a paire of Cards 0-08- o 

I: tubs and a paile and a barril and a runlet 0-12- o 

I: 3 Chests 0-08- o 

I : two bed steds 0-08- o 

I: Chairs & stools 0-06- o 

I: 8 pound of Cotten wool 0-04- 8 

I: for beding 3-IO- o 

I: his wearing Cloaths i-io- o 

I: Some whale bone and other trifles 0-05- 6 

I: a Bridle and Sadie a-12- o 

I: a dung fork; a beetlering, an Iron shovle a smoothing Iron .... 0-06- 6 

24- 2- 8 
This Inventory was taken by 
us whose names are under written : 

march: 5.1677 Thomas Leonard 

Nathaniel williams 
on the oath of Ester marshall 

Things omitted 

Item a bed 01-10-00 

Item a Cow & an heifer 05-00-00 

These were disposed of by James Bell to 
his daughter Jane Bell; 

This Inventory is Recorded according to order 
p me Nathaniell Morton Secretary to the Court 
for the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth see booke 
of Wills and Inventoryes folio 90: 

BOND OF MARY JENKINS 

Know all men by these p''sents that I Mary Jenkcns doe ac- 
knowlidge my self bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov"": and Court 
of New Plymouth in the penall sume of threescore pounds sterling for the 
payment wherof well and truly to be made I bind my self my heires 



126 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

executors and adminestrators; feirmly sealed this eight of June Ann°: 
dom 1677 

The Condition of the above written obligation is such that Wheras 
the abovebounden Mar>^ Jenkens hath obtained Letters of Adminestration 
to Adminester on the estate of Joseph Lewis deceased if therefore the 
said Mar>^ Jenkens shall and doe pay or cause to be payed all debts and 
Legacyes due from the samme unto any p''son or p^ons whatsoever; soe 
farr and by equall proportions as the estate will amount unto and save 
and keep harmles the said Gov'': and Court from any damage that mat 
accrew unto them by her said adminestration that then the abovewritten 
obligation to be void and of non effect or otherwise to Remaine in full 
force strength and vertue; 

Signed sealed and delivered 

in the p'"sence of the marke of 

Sam':Seabury Mary Jenkens x (Seal) 

John Barker 

INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF ROBERT SEARS 

An Inventory taken of the estat of Robert Sears the 24 of may in 1677 

as folows /. s. d. 

Imprimis one bed bolster small rug blanket pillows 2-10- o 

It another bed boster and pikkow and Rug 4-0-0 

It 5 pillow bears one pair of sheats i-io- o 

It 2 iron pots i- o- o 

It one bras cetell 0-15-0 

It one bras scelet 0-2-0 

It one hock and pot houcks 0-4-6 

It a pair of tongs & 0-4-0 

It 9 peeses of peuter 0-18- o 

It one warming pan 0-5-0 

It to . . . and to barrels 0-5-0 

It one . .. and bier barels dishes 0-6-6 

It . . . powder bolites with 0-1-6 

It one . . . and bag o- i- o 

It one whell too pair of cards 0-7-6 

It 2 trayes 0-1-6 

It I chest and three boxes 0-13-0 

It one box lern tailers goos and shers 0-8-0 

It 2 chairs and a paill 0-5-0 

It one plow with the Irons 0-9-0 

It Cart Ropes and ox pins 0-8-0 

It too axes 0-6-0 

It one how and . . . pin and yoak ... o-io- o 

It one Cart 0-6-0 

It a small persell of wool! o-io- o 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 127 

/. s. d. 

It one chest and trof o- 1. o 

It one pair of hinges and ould nailis 0-3-0 

It an ould sith ring and nibs 0-1-6 

It too oxen too coues and a calf ig. q- o 

It one horse of 3 year old i- o- o 

It one barel and half of Ry 3 bushells of indgin 0-15- o 

It a cannow 0-5-0 

It corne uppon the ground o-io-o 

It land and meddow on the north sid 15-0-0 

It 4 ackers of land in the second devision 2-0-0 

It his house lot with the orchard 15-0-0 

It one small pers of salt medow 2-0-0 

It too small swin i- o- o 

the holl sum is 70- 5- o 

Samuell Newman 
Thomas Ormsbe 



BOND OF ELIZABETH ELLIS 

Know all men by these p''sents that I Elizabeth Ellis of Sand- 
wich in the Jurisdiction of Plymouth in New England in America widdow 
doe acknowlidge my selfe heerby bound and feirmly obliged unto the Gov'': 
and Court of New Plymouth aforsaid in the penall sume of one hundred 
pounds for the payment wherof well and truely to be made I bind my 
selfe my heires executors and Adminestrators firmly by these p^^sents 
sealed and Given this seaventh day of June Ann": dom°: one thousand 
six hundred seaventy and seven 

The Condition of the abovewritten obligation is such that wheras 
the above bounden Elizabeth Ellis hath obtained Letters of Adminestra- 
tion to adminester on the estate of Leif tenant John Ellis deceased; if 
therefore the said Elizabeth Ellis shall and doe pay or Cause to be paid 
all such debts and legacyes as are due or owing unto any from the said 
Estate soe farr and by equall proportions as the estate will amount unto 
and keep and save harmles and undamnifyed the said Gov*": and Court 
from any damage that may accrew unto them by her said adminestration ; 
and keep a faire accompt therof and be Reddy to Give in an accompt 
therof to said Court when by them Required; That then the above written 
obligation to be voyde and of None effect or otherwise to Remaine in full 
force Strength and vertue 

Signed Sealled and delivered 

the seventh of June idyy The marke 

in the p''sence of of Elizabeth x Ellis (Seal) 

William Clarke 

John willyames 



128 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

WILL OF MICHAEL PEIRCE 

Situate in the Gov''ment of New Plimoth 1675 January the 15''': 
Michell Peiarce of Situate in the Gov''ment of New Plimoth in America 
Being Now by appoyntment : Goeing out to Warr against the Indeans doe 
make this my last will & Testament ; first I doe Comitt my self & wayes 
unto the : Eternal god; Nextly that Estate which god hath blest me with 
I thus Desposc; first I give unto my beloved wiif Anah: Peiarce : During 
her liflF the westward Eand of my Now Dwelling house In Situat: aforsayd 
which I last built to Dwell in; & the bed in it with what pertains therto 
to use and despose of as she shall see Cause; & the on half of my other 
household stuff for her use during her liff; & then to be desposed of; to 
my Children as she shall see Cause; alsoe; my will is that for my savd 
wiffs yearly mayntainance ; that my son Beniamen Peiarce : shall : pay 
unto her twelve pounds p. yeare : on half in mony & the other half in 
Provisions & alsoe sufisiant firewood for her use in the house During her 
liff; And I give unto my son Beniamen aforsayd my New Dwelling 
house & barn: in Situat aforsayd & all the land which I have in Situate 
Excepting that which I bought of Beniamen Bates of Hingam & that 
which I bought of william Jam of Situate & Excepting the abovsayd 
westwardly Eand of my abovsayd hous During my wives liff as abovsayd; 
out of which abovsayd Estate in house & lands Given unto my son Benia- 
men: he shall pay unto my aforsaid wiff for her maintainanc twelve pounds 
p yeare: as abovsayd During her liff — & sufisiant fire wood alsoe as abov- 
sayd; And I give unto my son John Peiarce: all my lands in Hingam 
in the : masy Chusets & my land in Situate which I bought of Beniamen 
Bates of hingam & that which I bought of William James of Situate; 
paying out of it to my son Ephraims two Children Eserikum Peiarce & 
Efraim Peiarce ; to Ech of them fifteen pounds at the age of twenty and 
on yeares; provided that Nether my son Ephraim aforsayd nor any of 
his after him; or any by or under him; shall goe about to molest my 
said son John of or upon the account of the three or four akers of meadowe 
land in hingam aforsayd which my father Eaimes gave unto my sayd son 
Ephraim; which is not yet soe fully Confirmed to me: as by my son Ephra- 
ims promise should have been/ 

Alsoe I give unto my abovsayd son Beniamen all my moveable Estate 
in Cattle & boates &: household goods & such like Excepting that which 
I have desposed of to my wiff as abovsayd; out of which sayd movable 
Estate : my sayd son Beniamen shall pay; those Legeses which I Give 
unto my children as foloweth first I give unto my son Ephraim Peiarce : 
five : pounds; secondly I give unto my dafter Abigail Houlbrook five pounds; 
thirdly I give unto my Dafter Elizabeth Peiarce : thirty pounds fourthly 
I give unto my Dafter Sarah Peiarce: thirty pounds fiftly I give unto my 
Dafter Anah Peiarce fifty pounds sixthly I give unto my Dafter Mary 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 129 

Houlbrook twenty pounds seventhly I give unto my Dafter Abyah Peiarce 
thirty pounds Eayghtly I give unto my Dafter Peiarses Peiarce fifty pounds 
Alsoe I give my Grand Child Elizabeth Houlbrook five pounds 

To be payd unto her by my son John Peiarce aforsayd at her day of 
mariadg or twenty on years of age Alsoe my will is that if it should please 
god that my abovsayd beloved wiff should be viseted with lameness or 
sikness soe that the abovsayd twelve pounds p yeare be not sufisiant to 
maintaine her in a Comfortable maner; that then what shall be thought 
meet by my overseers : to be aded: for her Comfortable maintenance 
shall be Equaly payd her yearly by my son Beniamen Peiarce : and my 
son John Peiarce out of that Estate : which I have given them as abovsayd: 

Alsoe I make my beloved wiff abovsayd my Executrix & my son Ben- 
iamen Peiarce my Executor to this my last will & Testament; And also I 
the abovsayd Michell Peiarce : doe make my trusty and well beloved 
freinds Cornet Robert Stutson & Isack Chittenden sen'' & my brother 
Marke Eames & my Brother Charles Stockbridg overseers to this my last 
will & Testament in witnes wherof I have herunto set my hand & scale 
this fivteenth of January 1675-1676. 

Witnesses; michell Pearse (Seal) 

Beniamen Woodwurth 
Charles Stockbridg 

[Note added in the margin] 

by Reson of the dangerousnes of the times ; & questioned by sum whether 
ther will be a Courte in July next & the pts prinsably Conserned hearin 
declaringe that delaye may be p''iudicial to the estate wherfo"": Charles 
Stockbridge & Beniamine wodworth gave oath before mee that they set 
to ther hands as witneses unto Mihill Pearce sineing sealing & decaringe 
this to be his Last will & Testament this was testified upon oath the s'^ 
of June 1676 before me James Cudworth Asistant . 



INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF JOHN JENKINS 

This ffollowing is an inventory or an account of y^ Estate of John 

Jenkins decceassed 

/. s. d. 

Item his upland. & meddow Land Vallewed at 38-00-00 

his Clothes with some money also beds & beding at 14-00-00 

The house & housing at 20-00-00 

The nete Cattell & swine and horse kind at 42-04-00 

A Cart & Wheels & Plow & other things belonging ther unto at . . . oi-ll-oo 

A Loome & the things belonging therunto at 04-00-00 

The Iron potes: Kittels Pans & y' w'** Pertains to its use 03-00-00 

The Pewter :i''. wool i6\ flax.I6^ Linnen & Woolen 04-10-00 

Butter & Cheese at i''. Scales & weights at (f 01-09-00 



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/. s. d. 
The Bedstcds chests tables barrells:& several! other things of small value 01-05-00 

The English Graine or Corne at 02-00-00 

his Bibles & other books at 01-05-00 

debts due to him as by his book appears 07-10-00 

140-14-00 

These above mentioned Perticulers w**^ y^ abovnamcd some were Prised 

& so vallued by us whose Names are 

William Newland 
Peter Gaunt 

This Inventory' is Recorded Zackery Jenkens testified as in the 

according to order p"^ me p''sence of Gov'': before the Court 

Nathaniel :Morton Secretary': that to the best of his understanding 

To the Court for the Jurisdiction this abovementioned is a true Inven- 
of New Plymouth see tory of the estate of John Jenkens 

New booke of Evidences his father deceased and if any more 

of Land Inrolled folio 81 of the estate doe appear hee doth 

heerby engage to bringe it to this 

Inventory: 



NUNCUPATIVE WILL OF THOiMAS DOTEY 

[Tho]mas Dotey of Plimouth being very sick yet ha . . . use 
of his senses and reason, did on the fourth (day) of December, 1678: 
declare these following words to be his last will, namely, that all his Estate 
he gave to his wife Mary Dotey, to be wholly at her Dispose, & left it 
all with her to improve & make use of as she should see best. 

This he declared to be his will as above written in the presence of 
Edward Dotey, and Samuel Eaton, and Anne Savoury, and it was com- 
mitted to wrighting, December 5, within 24 houres after the death of the 
said Thomas Dotey. 



APPOINTMENT AND BOND OF SAMUEL SEABURY 

The hon''ed gov'^no'' m"" Thomas. Hinckly Constant Southworth & 
James Cudworth . . . beinge all meet together this 19**^ day of December 
1678 Letters of Adminis . . . beinge granted unto Samuell Seabury to 
Adminester unto pt the estate of his . . . John Seabury deceased which 
is in this Collony he givinge in bonds ; to be accomtible unto the Court 
. . . Administration & secure & save harmles the Court Regarding his 
Administration 

Know all men by these p''sents that I Samuell Seabury do stand 



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& Am . . . obliged by this obligation unto the Court of New Plymoth 
in the full and Just sum of seaven pounds Corant silver mony of New- 
England ffor the which paiment well & truly to be made I bind me my 
heirs executors & Administrators firmly by these p''sents in witnes wheare 
of I have heare unto set my hand & scale the 19^ day of December 1678 
The Condition of the above written obligation is such that wheras 
. . . within bounden Samuell Seabury has Letters of Administration . . . 
him to administer upon pt. of the estate of his Brother John Seabury which 
is in this Colony . . . soe if the said Samuell Seabury shall give the 
Court of New Plymouth A trew & Just accounte of his Administration 
when ther unto required & shall secure & save the Court harmles respect- 
ing his Administration then this obligation to be void & of none effecte 
else to abid Remaine & be in its full power force & strength & vertue; 

Signed sealed & delivered 

in the p'"sence of us Sam" Seabury (Seal) 

John Brooke 

James Cudworth 



DEED OF JOHN COBB TO SON EBENEZER COBB 

To all people to whome these presents shall Come John Cobb senior 
of the Town of plimouth in the County of plimouth in New England 
sendeth Greeting : etc: Know ye that I the said John Cobb senior for and 
in Consideration of the Natural Affection & good will that I doe beare 
unto my Naturall and well beloved son Ebanezar Cobb and for other good 
Causes Me therunto Moveing have with the free Consent of my Wife 
Martha Cobb Given Granted Aliened Asigned Asured alloted enfeoffed 
and Confirmed unto my s*^ well beloved son Ebenazar Cobb the one half 
in deale of my whole Intrest of land that I have att a place Comonly 
Caled Monponsett lying in the Township of plimouth as also four Acrees 
of Meadow att Wenatuxet as also all my whole Intrest of land that was 
given mee by John Haward late of Dartmouth deceased Apart of which 
lyeth adjoyning to my other lands and is bounded as foUoweth on the 
Northerly Corner bounded with a Rock and a heap of stons about it and 
thence Ranging southward along by A Swampe Comonly Caled howards 
Swamp to a white oak tree marked and from s'' oake on a straite line to 
a Path Comonly Caled the walk path and there bounded with a white 
oak bush and a heape of stones by it and from thence Ranging along the 
s'' Walk path to a Red oake bush & a heap of stones by it and from thence 
Ranging northward to a Red oake sapling A-larked and from thence down 
on a straite line to the bounds first mentioned ; allwaies provided that my 
s'^ son : shall have free Recourse through my own land from his house unto 



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the brook Comonly Caled Rusts brooke. Never to be debarred, therof 
as also I doe give unto my s^ son: Ebenazar Cobb all the rest of my 
Intrest in s^ Hawards land which lyeth att the fishing point soe Caled 
in the Township of plimouth To have and to hold all the s'^tracts of land 
and meadow above Mentioned with all and singular the appurtenances 
and privilidges therunto belonging ; from mee and My heires unto him 
my said Naturall and beloved son Ebenazar Cobb and to his heires and 
assignes for Ever with all and singular the woods waters privilidges here- 
dittaments Emolluments With all and singular my Right title Intrest 
and Conscernment which I have or might pretend to have of and into 
the same or any part therof To belong unto the only proper use and 
behooflFe of him my s*^ son Ebenezor Cobb to him and his heires and assigns 
forever 

Warranting this my said Deed of Gift Against all persons that by my 
Right Might Clame any Right or title of or into the said premises or 
any part or persel therof ffree and Cleare and Clearly acquitted of and 
from all other and former Gifts Graunts Bargains Sales Leases Mortgages 
Entanglements or incumbrances whatsoever had made Committed omitted 
suffered or done or by any other person or persons whatsoever acting by or 
with my allowance consent cause means privity or procurement In 
Witness Wherof I the said John Cobb senior hath herunto sett my hand 
and affixed my scale on the tenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand 
six hundred ninety and three 1693 in the fifth year of the Reign of our 
Soveraign lord and lady William and Mary of England Scotland franc 
and Ireland king and queen defenders of the flFaith etc : 

John Cob (Seal) 

Signed sealed and delivered This above written Deed John Cobb above men- 
In presence of us witnesses of Gift is Recorded in y*^ tioned in this Deed & 
Thomas ffaunce 62'^ page of the Second Instrument coming p"^- 

Ephraim morton Book of County Records sonally before me the 

for Deeds at plimouth lo'*^ of Julj 1693 did 
March 26^*^ 1697 freely owne and Ac- 

knowledg it to be his 
p' Sam' Sprague Recorder act & deed 



William Bradford 

one of the Counsell & 
Justice of peace : 



A REVIEW OF BRADFORD'S HISTORY "OF 
PLIMOm^H PLANTATION " 

IN order to understand this, one of the greatest books of all history, 
one must have in mind the stage of human development and out- 
look which had been reached when "Plimouth Plantation" came into 
being. After centuries of practical stagnation the Crusades had stirred Europe 
and sent out streams of pilgrims, with all that followed in their train. 
While the effects of that stir were still operating among the nations that 
had taken part in those movements, Columbus' discovery of America and 
the vast explorations and enrichments of Spain and Portugal had still 
further aroused the people of all Europe, and led to French, Italian and 
English voyages and adventures; while all the time Scandinavians had 
pressed their way athwart icy seas and into many a "Vineland" shore. 
Naturally England felt stirred to establish colonies in the New World. 
Smith, Gosnold, Waymouth, Drake, Gilbert and a host of compeers, at 
Popham, Jamestown and elsewhere, — such was the state of affairs in a 
business and state respect as the sixteenth century closed and the seven- 
teenth century began. But another and deeper change had been wrought 
in the mental and spiritual condition of Europeans. While Spain was 
gathering and bringing home treasures, England had been enriched with 
the rediscovered Gospel. Men had learned that the Bible was every- 
body's property, Jesus everybody's friend; that Christian life was not the 
prerogative of abbeys and convents, but the light and joy of common 
homes and ordinary workaday lives. The monopoly claimed by a set of 
officials with a central ruler at Rome was thrown off opjenly by a British 
king and as fully by thousands of people. The Bible translated into the 
speech of the common folk had fixed a growing language into a noble 
tongue, and in this clear medium great treasures of uplifting literature 
had been given to the community. But not without violent and ferocious 
persecutions would the middle age monopoly of religion resign its victims 
to the free enjoyment of Christ's free gift. Wave after wave of arrests, 
burnings, banishments followed. England, after throwing off the authority 
of Rome, undertook to do the same sort of monopoly and vied with the 
ancient foe in cruel treatment of harmless, useful, heavenly-minded fol- 
lowers of Jesus. To this Bradford refers in strong language in the open- 
ing page of his work, which we here quote: 

It is well knowne unto y° godly and judicious, how ever since y^ first breaking 
out of y^ lighte of y^ gospell in our Honourable Nation of England, (which was y^ 
first of nations whom y" Lord adorned ther with, affter y' grosse darkness of popery 

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which had covered & ov^ersprcd y" christian worlcd,) what warrs & opposissions ever 
since, Satan hath raised, maintained, and continued against the Saincts, from time 
to time in one sorte or other. Some times by bloody death and cruell torments; 
other whiles imprisonments, banishments, & other hard usages; as being loath his 
kingdom should goe downe, the trueth prevaile, and y* churches reverte to their 
anciente puritie, and recover their primative order, libertie, & bewtie. 

The historian says a good deal along this line; mentions Fox's Book 
of Martyrs; refers to the escape of eight hundred persecuted Christians 
from England to German and Swiss cities. He thus states the real issue: 

The one side laboured to have y^ right worship of God & discipline of Christ 
established in y° church, according to y^ simplicitic of y" gospell, without the mixture 
of men's inventions, and to have & to be ruled by y* laws of God's word, dispensed 
in those offices, & by those officers of Pastors, Teachers, & Elders, &c. according to 
y* Scripturs. 

He contrasts this simple claim with the multiplied forms and cere- 
monies and officials and revenues and courts and power of the other party, 
who "to cast contempte the more upon y*^ sincere servants of God, 
opprobriously & most injuriously gave unto, & imposed upon them, that 
name of Puritans, which (it) is said the Novatians out of prid did assume 
& take unto themselves." 

Let no one fail to note that Governor Bradford here distinctly testi- 
fies to the fact that all those who were teaching and living the simple 
Gospel were called Puritans. By some strange perversion not a few 
writers have denied this and tried to distinguish between Puritans and 
Pilgrims, contrasting the Massachusetts Bay Colony as Puritans with the 
Plymouth Colony as Separatists. This is absolutely incorrect. For in 
the first place the church colony of Dorchester was as definitely organized 
in its dual capacity in England and came here as fully separated from the 
English church as the Plymouth party; and Hingham church and the 
Rowley church, also, had a distinctness of the same sort, while Boston, 
Charlestown, Salem, Watertown and the rest of the Massachusetts churches 
were organized on the very lines of the A-Iayflower p^rty as Bradford 
states them. The whole of what became Massachusetts was positively 
Puritan, as the word was then used, and the majority of the inhabitants 
were members of those churches and came here from the very motives 
which impelled the band which began Plymouth Colony. Let the truth 
on this matter be clearly and bravely spoken; Puritan-Pilgrims is the term 
which needs to be emblazoned on our shield. 

Bradford was evidently ashamed of the term which the enemies of the 
Gospel put on his party; rather should the word be counted honorable, 
for while it is absurd for one to say "I am pure," it is dignified to say 
"/ aim at being and doing exactly right"; and that is the gist of Puritanism, 
which merely responds to the appeal of the Great Teacher: "Be ye there- 
fore perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect." 



THE PLYAIOUTH SCRAP BOOK 135 

Bradford relates that "in y*" North parts" of England many 
" Became inlightened by y" word of God," and "as y" Lords free people, joyned 
them selves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in y* felowship of y* 
gospell, to vvalke in all his wayes, made known or to be made known unto them, 
according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting 
them. And that it cost them something this ensewing historic will declare. These 
people became 2. distincte bodys or churches, & in regarde of distance of place did 
congregate severally; for they were of sundrie townes & vilages, some in Notingam- 
shire, some of Lincollinshire, and some of Yorkshire, wher they border nearest 
togeather. In one of these churches (besids others of note) was Mr. John Smith, 
a man of able gifts, & a good preacher, who afterwards was chosen their pastor. 
But these afterwards falling into some errours in y^ Low Countries, they (for y^ 
most part) buried them selves, & their names." 

He proceeds to give the history of the church, which we know was 
that at Scrooby, a little village on the Idle in the north of Notting- 
hamshire, where William Brewster, postmaster (or master of the station 
where the coaches on the northern mail route changed horses and 
refreshed passengers) opened his house and entertained the congregation 
Sunday after Sunday. 

But in this other church (w"='' must be y° subjecte of our discourse) besids other 
worthy men, was jVf Richard Clifton, a grave & revered preacher, who by his paines 
and dilligens had done much good, and undeer God had ben a means of y" conver- 
sion of many. And also that famous and worthy man, M^ John Robinson, who 
afterwards was their pastor for many years, till y" Lord tooke him away by death. 
Also M^ William Brewster, a reverent man, who afterwards was chosen an elder of 
y^ church and lived with them till old age. 

But troubles beset them; some were imprisoned, some were insulted, 
some were driven from their homes; so that after holding together at 
Scrooby for about a year "by a joynte consente they resolved to goe into 
y*" Low-Countries, wher they heard was freedome of Religion for all men; 
. . . which was in y^ year 1607. & 1608." 

The resolution to get away from those who had been persecuting 
them was not easy to carry into effect. Ports and havens were shut 
against them, so they had to make private arrangements for the voyage. 

They chartered a ship and were allowed to go on board; but the captain 
betrayed them and let officers from the town of Boston, in Lincoln- 
shire, take them off into open boats, ransack their persons for money, 
carry them ashore where their books, goods and whatever could be found 
were taken from them, and they were haled before magistrates. Most of 
them were imprisoned a month, seven kept till the next term of court. 
The next spring another attempt was made by some of these and others 
to get over. While the women and children with the goods were put on 
board of a small bark to be carried out to a larger vessel which was to 
take the party on board, and the men went to the appointed rendezvous, 
the tide ran out and the bark got aground. The master of the ship was 



136 THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 

frightened when he saw a sheriff's posse coming across the shore to take 
the party, and sailed off with only a part of the men, leaving stranded 
the rest of the men and the whole company and precious cargo of the 
bark. 

Two weeks at sea in stormy weather, and a narrow escape from 
wreck on the coast of Norway, to which they were driven on the way, 
made an awful experience for those men, who could learn nothing as to 
the fate of their families whom the heartless shipmaster had abandoned 
against their protests and entreaties. But they prayed to God in their 
distress, and calm weather came and they arrived at their Dutch port. 
On the other side, the women and their few protectors were taken to a 
justice here and a magistrate there and abominably delayed and bothered; 
although the constables and judges were convinced that 

to imprison so many women & innocent children for noe other cause but they 
must goe with their husbands, seemed to be unreasonable and all would crie out of 
them; and to send them home againe was as difficult, for they aledged, as y* trueth 
was, they had noe homes to goe to, for they had either sould, or otherwise disposed 
of their houses & livings. 

Bradford did not despair at those griefs which they endured; 

for by these so publick troubls, in so many eminente places, their cause became 
famouss, & occasioned many to looke into y* same; and their godly cariage & christian 
behaviour was such as left a deep inpression in the minds of many. 

In the town of Boston, where these good people had had s'uch bad 
treatment, stands a grand parish church, whose lofty tower may be seen 
far off on land and sea. The people of that parish must have been among 
those to whom Bradford here refers; for our own town of Boston was 
settled in 1630 by a company of people gathered from a wide circle in 
England, and several of its most efficient members were from old Boston. 
In fact, Reverend John Cotton, who came to St. Botolph's parish in 1626, 
was so imbued with Puritanism and separation that he left that Boston 
and came to oiirs in 1633, and gave his life and strength to the Christian 
commonwealth here. An evidence of his having particular regard for the 
Scrooby church people is found in a letter to Mr. Bradford from a friend 
at Charlestown, August 2, 1630: 

Here is a gentleman, one M'. Cottington, (a Boston man,) who tould nic, that 
M'. Cottons charge at Haniton was, that they should take advise of them at Plinioulh, 
and should doe nothing to offend them. 

The same letter tells of the plan for the organization of three churches 
and the appointment of a day of fasting and prayer for heavenly direc- 
tion and blessing, and a request that the church of Plymouth would set 
apart the same day for the same ends. The identity of the two colonies 
as Puritans and Separatists is thus absolutely established. The honeyed 
words of Governor John Winthrop, as his ship lay in Charlestown harbor, 



THE PLYMOUTH SCRAP BOOK 137 

bidding farewell to the Church of England, must be interpreted by the 
fact that he was one of the founders of the Congregational, i.e., Separa- 
tist, church of Boston, and one of the persons who joined in this request 
to Plymouth brothers to join in fellowship with them at that day. 

To return to the Scrooby party. They settled after many hindrances 
in Amsterdam; where they began to cope with the language and spend an 
amount of money which frightened them so that "they saw the grime & 
grisly face of povertie coming upon them." It was hard to go to a coun- 
try with strange language and customs; still harder to make a living in 
that land, whose inhabitants were chiefly engaged in cloth making and 
other trades of which they were ignorant, and where prices were higher 
than in England. After they had lived there about a year they saw 
reasons for making a change of residence, one being the fact that an 
earlier company of English Puritans had lived there before them and had 
disagreeable experiences, dissensions, contentions; the Scrooby church had 
no wish to come into conflict with the remainder of that band or to get 
into any similar quarrels; so they removed to Leyden — "a fair & beauti- 
ful citie, and of a sweete situation, but made more famous by y^ univer- 
sitie wherwith it is adorned." 

Here the men learned trades and earned 

a competente & comforteable living, but with hard and continuall labor. 
Being thus setled (after many difficulties) they continued many years in a com- 
fortable condition, injoying much sweete & delightefull societie & spirituall comforte 
togeather in y* wayes of God, under y* able ministrie, and prudent governmente of 
M^ John Robinson, & Al^ William Brewster, who was an assistante unto him in y" 
place of an Elder, unto which he was now called & chosen by the church. So as 
they grew in knowledge & other gifts & graces of y' spirite of God, & lived togeather 
in peace, & love, and holines; and many came unto them from diverse parts of 
England, so as they grew a great congregation. And if at any time any differences, 
or offences broak out (as it cannot be, but some time ther will, even amongst y^ best 
of men) they were ever so mete with, and then nipt in y° head betims, or otherwise 
so well composed, as still love, peace, and communion was continued; or els y^ church 
purged of those that were incurable & incorrigible, when, after much patience used, 
no other means would serve, which seldom came to pass. 

Many compliments are paid to Pastor Robinson here and in other 
parts of the History; his love for his people; his remarkable ability in 
religious matters and his sagacity about business and civil matters, all 
made the church exceedingly fond of him and full of deep respect for his 
character and eminent qualities. Altogether Bradford is moved to say, 

That such was y^ true pietie, y^ humble zeale, & fervent love, of this people 
(whilst they thus lived together) towards God and his waies, and y^ single hartednes 
& sinceir affection one towards another, that they came as near y'^ primative patterne 
of y^ first churches, as any other church of these later times have done, according 
to their ranke & qualitie. 

Bradford tells us that the congregation became well-reputed in Ley- 



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den; that the Dutch bakers and others would "trust" them because they 
found them conscientious about paying their debts. The pastor's learn- 
ing and skill as a teacher and debater gained him much esteem, and 
finally, when they were deliberating on removal to America some leading 
persons in Holland were desirous to have them join in some one of the 
Dutch colonies, considering them unusually valuable persons for such 
adventure. 

The eleven years of their residence in Leyden were marked by a truce 
between the Spanish nation and Holland; so peace reigned where war had 
prevailed woefully before. Outwardly the Pilgrims were doing fairly well; 
but they were not contented. Few now came to join them, while not a 
few removed back to England, weary of foreign life, hoping for some relief 
from former persecutions. The older people felt age stealing on them and 
saw little prospect of bettering their condition before the time of feeble- 
ness. Their children, the best of them, were overworking and bending 
prematurely under the weight of labor. Worse than that, some of their 
beloved youth were being led astray by the examples of bad men and 
women, and some went to war and others 

tooke upon them farr viages by sea, and other some worse courses, tending to 
dissolutnes & the danger of their soules, to y* great greefe of their parents and 
dishonour of God. So that they saw their posteritie would be in danger to degen- 
erate & be corrupted. 

But the final reason which Bradford gives for the decision to remove 
is this: 

Lastly, (and which was not least,) a great hope & inward zeall they had of laying 
some good foundation, or at least to make some way therunto, for y® propagating 
& advancing y^ gospel! of y* kingdom of Christ in these remote parts of y* world; 
yea, though they should be but even as stepping stones unto others for y* performing 
of so great a work. . . . 



Note — At this point the reviewer laid aside his pen, never to resume the task. 
Incomplete though the sketch may be, its historic portrayal and reverential comment on 
the "faith of the Puritans" form a fitting background for the fragmentary record of the 
lives of the "Puritan-Pilgrims" in "Plimouth Plantation." 

N. B. P. 



INDEX OF NAMES 

PAGE 

Abraham, John, about to settle at Yarmouth, "warned away" in accordance 
with a law of the time relating to newcomers. Not evidence of any objectionable 

quality in the person thus "warned." (Not dated; probably 1683) 37 

Addington, Isaac, of Boston, clerk of Massachusetts Bay General Court, attests 

a document filed at Plymouth I2i 

Alden, Jonathan, son of John Alden, cooper, Mayflower passenger, magistrate 
and exQellent citizen, and his wife Priscilla, daughter of William Mullens ... 30 

Allen, Caleb, son of George Allen who came from Weymouth, England, to our 
Weymouth before March 20, 1635, with wife Katherine, sons George, William and 
Matthew and servant Edward Poole; removed to Sandwich; John, Sen., and Samuel 

were other sons 33,46,48,55 

Almy, Christopher, John and Mary, of Rhode Island; real estate in Plymouth 

colony 10 

Ames, John, one of the sons of a celebrated Puritan minister. Rev. William Ames, 
who died in Europe and his widow and sons came to New England May 11, 1637, first 

to Cambridge, then to Duxbury, later to Bridgewater 77 

Amicoy, John 35 

Ammidown, Roger, of Salem in 1640, afterward at Weymouth, Boston and Reho- 
both; first wife Sarah, second Joanna, who outlived him, and, with her brother John 

Harrud, administered and gave the customary bond 1 15 

Arnold, Samuel, Jr., a son of an early inhabitant of Sandwich, later of Marsh- 
field; inlierited his father's "divinity books in folio" 21 

Bacon, Edward, Hannah, Nathaniel, Samuel, Natlianiel, tanner, town officer 
in Barnstable and a magistrate of the colony; wife Hannah (Mayo); Samuel, one of his 

sons 60,72,91,111,115 

Baker, Kenelm, a grandchild of Kenelm Winslow, q. v 64 

Barker, John, of Marshfield, bricklayer; had wife Anna and daughters . 11, 116, 126 

Barlow, George, an early settler at Sandwich; constable 51 

Barnabe, Samuel 85 

Barnes, John, merchant in Plymouth very early, wrote his name in 1646 but 
signed with a mark when unable to see w^ell. Wife Jone, son Jonathan, grandson John 

Marshall, deceased daughter Lydia 56, 102 

Barstow, William, se. 23, came in 1635 to Dedham; wife Ann (Hubbard); as 
"Widow Barstow" she was a creditor of Samuel Sturtevant; son Joseph kept the 

ordinary at the North River about 1683 37; 85 

Bartlett, Joseph, son of Robert Bartlett, cooper, passenger in the Anne in 
1623, by wife Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, a notable Mayflower passenger; 

Joseph became selectman, etc 71 

Bassett, Willi.^m, "Englishman," married first Cecil Light, married second, at 
Leyden, Holland, August 13, 161 1, Margaret Oldham; came to Plymouth in 1621; 
gunsmith, deputy; resided successively at Plymouth, Duxbury, Sandwich and Bridge- 
water; died in 1667; last wife Mary 44) 57j 59) 77 

Bates, Benjamin, of Hingham 128 

Beebe, Hopestill, son of Elisha (Beesbeach or Bisby), of Marshfield ... 19 

Beedle, Joseph, bought land at Plymouth of Isaac Robinson in 1635; served in 

the Pequot War in 1637; resided at Marshfield II 

Bell, James, of Taunton 124 

Bendall, Freegrace, of Boston 121 

Benson, Joseph, of Rochester, son of John who came from Gonsham, Oxford- 
shire, England, in 1638 and settled at Hingham loi 

Blackwell, John, son of Michael, of Sandwich 52 

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PAGE 

BoBBETT, Edward, an early settler at Taunton, enrolled as able to bear arms in 
1643; married at Boston 7 (7) 1653, Sarah, daughter of Miles Tarne. Was slain by 

the Indians in King Philip's \\'ar 43 

BoNAM (Bonham, Bonum) George, Plymouth before 1640, died before 1671 . . 95 

BoswoRTH, Hannah .... 80 

Bourne, John, a land-owner at Marshfield in 1643; married Alice, daughter of 
Thomas Beesbeach who came from Sandwich, England, in 1634; Thomas, son and heir 
of John. Richard, son of Mr. Thomas, of Plymouth, was adult in 1636. Was John 

also son of Thomas? 11,13,24,31,57,82,121 

BowEN, Richard, prominent citizen of Rehoboth; Obadiah and Richard, Jr., 

also favorably known _ . _ . 34,117 

Bradford, William, the greatest man among the Mayflower Pilgrims in some 
respects; author of the history which has been published by the Commonwealth; is 
not enrolled in this collection of documents, but his sons John, William and Joseph are, 

and his grandson Elisha 18,24,61,64,76,78,81,86,88,132 

Brett, William, an early settler at Duxbury; removed to Bridgewater; ruling 
elder in the church; sons William and Elisha; Elihu .... -59,77 

Brewster, William, the host of the Pilgrim Church in Scrooby, England, a 
partner in all their persecutions and toils, though he gave up much of position and 
comfort to do it; a printer of books and pamphlets to aid the Puritan cause; came in the 
Mayfioiver; led the worship of the church when no minister was present, and in many 
ways took a leading place in all the life of the community. While "ruling elder" of 
the church lie did the most menial service for the sick in the time of epidemic. He 
probably signed the first inventory of this Scrap Book, but some vandal tore off the 
bottom of the document where it was folded when pasted into this Scrap Book, to get 

his autograph and those of Governor Prence and Air. Chandelcr 9) 39 

Briggs, Clement, a felmonger from Southwark, England; came in the Fortune 
to Plymouth in 1621; father of Jonathan; Samuel was son of John, who came to 
Boston and Watertown in 1635, and to Sandwich in 1640; wife Katharine 43, 1 10 

Bright, John 62 

Brooke, Brooks, John, William 49ii3i 

Browne, Mr. John, "traveling in the low countries, saw the Pilgrims at Leyden 
and took a good liking to them"; came early to Plymouth; removed to Rehoboth; 

man of importance 1 17 

Bryant, John, son of John, of Scituate, who died in 1638; Steven, an early settler 

at Plymouth, then at Duxbury 66, 73 

Buck, Isaac, blacksmith, Scituate; Thomas, born about 1665 32,68 

Bullock, Richard . 61 

Burden, "Purdane," Thomas, of Plymouth in 1680 and of Rhode Island in 1682 16 

Burg, BuRGE, Joseph, son of Thomas, of Sandwich, who died in 1684 15,31,81 

Burt, Richard 83 

Cann, John • ■ ■ i-i 

Carpenter, William, came in May, 1635; dwelt at Weymouth awliile, then 

made permanent home at Rehoboth. Town officer and deputy 76 

Carver, Robert, proprietor at Marshfield in 1638; was he a relation of John 

Carver, first governor of the Mayflowe,r colony.? 96 

Chadwell, Richard, shipwright, Saugus, 1636; removed to Sandwich ... 29 

Chadwick, John, of the Maiden family, settled at Sandwich ill 

Chambers, Elizabeth, of Boston, Robert, of Marshfield 70> 85 

Chandler (Chandelcr, Chanlar, Chandler), Edmund, of Plymouth in 1633, of 

Duxbury in 1636; sons Samuel, Joseph and others 9,3^ 

Chapman, Isaac, son of Ralph who came, ae. 20, in 1635, and lived at Duxbur\-, 

resided at Yarmouth 110,114 

Chipman, John, son of Mr. Thomas, of Dorsetshire, came to Plymouth in 1630: 
settled at Barnstable; ruling elder, town officer, deputy; married Hope, daughter of 

the jl/ayyfoa'iT passenger, John Howland 88,109 

Chittenden, Isaac, son of Thomas and Rebecca, came at the age of ten with 

them, in 1635, to Scituate; Joseph and Israel his sons 38,48,129 

Church, Joseph, son of Richard, carpenter, one of the earliest settlers at Boston, 
also lived at Weymouth, Plymouth, Charlestown and Hingham; died at Dedham; 



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bequeathed double share of estate to son Joseph "on account of the lameness of his 25 

hand." The latter lived at Marshfield . 

Churchill, Joseph, and John, sons of John, Senior, who was living at Plymouth 
in 1643; married Hannah, daughter of William Pontus, another early settler; he died 
in 1662; she married second, Gyles Rickard; other sons Eleazer and William . . 95,109 

Claghorne, James 35 

Clap, Samuel, was son of Thomas (son of Nicholas, of Venn Ottery, Devonshire), 

who settled at Scituate 32, 48, 55 

Clark, Clarke, Faith, Dorothy, James, Martha, Nathaniel, Thurston, 

William 35,61,87,127 

Cob, Cobb, Henry, taxed in 1632, freeman in 1633; deacon and then ruling elder; 
lived at Scituate; removed with part of the church to Barnstable. John was one of 

his seven sons, Ebenezer was John's son 60, 13 1 

Cobleigh, John 115 

Cole, James, shoemaker, innkeeper, Plymouth, an early inhabitant. Wife Mary; 
sons James and Hugh; John, with wife M\ry, of Rhode Island, was son of Hugh; 
James had son John who married Mary Tilson; Ephraim . . . 11,34,36,43,72,85,122 

Coleman, AIargaret, daughter of Thomas Lumbert, of Dorchester and Barn- 
stable, and wife of Edward Coleman, of Eastham and elsewhere 32 

Colimore, Anthony, Scituate 69 

Combe, John, freeman of Plymouth colony in 1633, Francis, his son, removed to 

Middleborough 27, 67 

Cooke, Jacob, son of Francis, one of the Mayflower passengers and signers of the 

compact, by wife Hester, a Walloon 65 

Cooper, Thomas, with wife, two children, two servants and other persons, came 
from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 1638; removed to Rehoboth; town 

officer 62 

Cornelius, Irishman 34 

CowEN, John 41 

Cranston, John, Governor of Rhode Island n 

Croade, Thomas 100 

Crocker, William, member of church of Scituate in 1636; removed to Barnstable; 

deacon, town officer 12,64,88 

Crowe, William, a nephew of Mr. John Atwood; had brethren in Coventry, Eng- 
lanJ; in Plymouth before 1643; much in public business 17,67,83,90,98,110,119 

Crowell (name changed from Crowe), John, Senior, at Charlestown in 1635; 

took oath of allegiance to Plymouth colony at Yarmouth in 1638 93 

CuDWORTH, James, Salter, educated, independent thinker, favored the Quakers; 
deputy, assistant, major general; agent for the colony in England at one time; dep- 
uty governor in 168 1. Sons, James, IsR-\el and Jonathan; daughters Alary and 

Hannah 33,41,47,48,129,131 

Curtis, Richard, resided at Scituate in 1643; died in 1693, bequeathing special 
estate to son John who was to care for him and his wife the remainder of their lives; 
will dated October 26, 1692, proved December 19, 1693. Was this that John? . . 15,121 

Cushing, John, one of the sons of Matthew, of Hingham . 32, 41, 47, 48, 52, 55, 68, 77 
Cushman (" Couchman"), Thomas, was son of Robert, from Canterbury, Eng- 
land, member of church at Leyden, Holland, before 1617; one of the committee on 
removal to Plymouth; came in the Fortune in 1621; sometimes acted as minister; he 
died in England when on business of the colony in 1626. Isaac was a son of Thomas, 

who was elder of the church 43, 56 

Cutler, Doctor 52 

Deane, Thomas, son of John, of Taunton (presumably); Walter, a brother of 

John, a tanner at Taunton, freeman in 1638; town officer 99, 121 

Delano, Philip (name written by Winslow De La Noye), of French parentage, 
joined the church in Leyden, Holland; came here in the Fortune in 1621; settled at 
Duxbury; sons Philip, Thomas, John and Samuel, grandson Jonathan . . 29,36,39,116 

Dexter, Thomas 102 

Dillingham, Edward, of Lynn in 1637 and one of the founders of Sandwich the 

same year; wife Ursula; sons Henry and John 15 

DiNGLEY, John, smith. Sandwich, 1638; removed to Marshfield; deputy . . 96 



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DoGED (Dogget, Daggett), Thomas, came in the employ of Thomas Oliver, of 
Norwich, England, in 1637; lived at Concord, Weymouth and Marshiield; town officer. 
Son John died and his widow Bathsheba administered on his estate . . 76,113 

DoNHAM (Dunham), John, weaver, Plymouth, 1633 ; deacon, deputy; died Alarch 2, 
1668-9, aged about 80. John, Samuel and Joseph were his sons, Jonathan his 
grandson 14,26,85,108,113 

DoTEN (Dotey) Edward, of London, servant of Stephen Hopkins, came in the 
Mayflower, signed the Compact; resided at Plymouth; freeman, 1633; died August 
12, 1655. Sons Edward, John, Thomas, Samuel and Joseph; Mary, widow of 
Thomas 19, 43, 73, loS, 130 

Eames, Mark, son of Anthony, of Charlestown in 1634, who assisted in laying out 
the line between Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth patents. Resided in Hingham; 
town officer and deputy; chosen captain of military company, whereupon great contro- 
versy arose. Mark was his son no, 114 

Eaton, Samuel, son of Francis Eaton, carpenter, who came in the Mayflower, 
signed the compact and was a citizen of Plymouth; Samuel came with his parents 130 

Eddy, Zechariah, son of Samuel, an early settler at Plymouth, was placed with 
Mr. John Browne, of Rehoboth, when 7 years old, March 2, 1646-7; Caleb seems to have 
been his brother 34, ill 

Edwards, Joseph, of Rochester loi 

Ellis, John, Sandwich, lieutenant; wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund 
Freeman. They made their mark because of failure of sight 82, 127 

Elliston, George .... 116 

Esterbrook, Thomas iii 

Evans, Anne 99 

Ewer, John (endorsed John Hewer), was probably a son of Thomas Ewer, Charles- 
town, whose widow, Sarah, married Thomas Lothrop of Scituate and Barnstable 12 

Farman . . . ' 109 

Faunce, Thomas ("fTaunce," he usually wrote it), son of John who came to Plym- 
outh in 1623, both men of consequence 43,75,92,132 

Fish, John, and Jonathan, sons of Thomas Fish, of Warwick, England; drew on 
him for money in 1643 and 1646. (See Aspinwall's Not. Recs.) John's wife Cecilia 
(Syseliah) speaks of lier son John. Nathaniel may have been a brother of John and 
Jonathan 30,77,82 

Poles, William 39 

Ford (ffoord) William, miller, Duxbury, 1643, aged about 72 years when he made 
his will September 12, 1676 13,26,69 

Foxwell, Richard, tailor, Boston, 163 1, removed to Plymouth; joined his old 
church associates at Scituate and Barnstablej sons-in-law Samuel Bacon, Hugh Cole 
and William Nqlson 59. 72 

Freeman, Edmond, came in 1635 to Saugus, then to Scituate; was brother-in-law 
of Mr. John Beauchamp, one of the adventurers of Plymouth colony; assistant; 
died in 1682; sons Edmond and John 54,81,82 

Fuller, Samuel, nephew of Dr. Samuel Fuller, the first physician of Plymouth 
Colony, seems to be son of Edward Fuller, who also came in the Mayflower, signed the 
compact, died in 1621. Samuel, Jr., was son of Doctor Fuller 65,98 

Gannett, Benjamin and Joseph, brothers 73 

Gaunt, Peter, of Sandwich in 1638; wife Lydia bequeathed to sons Israel, Hannah 
and Zachariah, and others, and to the Quaker meeting 130 

Gibes, John, one of the sons of Thomas, an early settler at Sandwich ... 92 

Goodspeed, Roger, resident of Barnstable as early as 1641; married Alice Layton; 
sons Nathaniel, John and Benjamin. Nathaniel's widow Elizabeth ... 89 

GoRHAM, GoRUM, JoHN, proprietor at I'lymouth in 1638; with Josejih Beadle 
built a bridge over South River in 1650 and 165 1 ; captain in King Philip's War in 1675; 
died at Swansea that year. Married Desire, daughter of John Howland of the May- 
flower company. Sons James, John, Jabez and Shubacl 31,35,114,120 

Gray, Edward, a resident of Plymouth before 1646, became wealthy and promi- 
nent. Married first Mary, daughter of Jolin Winslovv; married second, in 1667, 
Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Lettice; she joined with her stepson John in receipt 



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in 1682; daughter Susanna was wife of John Cole; Lydia married Caleb Loring; John 

had son Samuel 16,26,65,73,85,99,117 

Griffith, William 23 

Hall, Halle, Edward, in employ of Francis Doughty of Taunton in 1640; re- 
moved to Duxbury; served against the Narragansetts; removed to Rehoboth; certified 

as son of Francis Hall of Henbury, England; wife Esther (Hester) 95)96 

Hall, John, Barnstable, 1643; removed to Yarmouth 93 

Hail, Richard 123 

Hammond, Benjamin, of Yarmouth in 1643 and after; John, son of William, of 
Lavenham, England, and Watertown, Mass., guardian of the children of his sister Eliza- 
beth House. in, 120 

Harlovv', William, cooper. Sandwich, 1638; removed to Plymouth; sergeant, 
town officer; married Rebecca, daughter of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlett; 
died in 1691, leaving his estate to his four sons, Samuel, William, Nathaniel and Benja- 
min, and seven daughters 43,49,67,71,73,85,95,109 

Harrud, John 115 

Harvey, William, son of William, a resident of Taunton in 1639, then of Boston . 44,99 
Hatch, Jonathan, of Plymouth in 1640; served against the Narragansetts; re- 
sided at Barnstable; sons Thomas, Jonathan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Samuel, 
daughters Sar.ah and Mary. William, merchant, of Sandwich, England, came to 
Scituate with wife Jane, five children and six servants in 1634; lieutenant, elder; sons, 

Walter and William; Jeremiah was a grandson 19,40,48,57 

Hathaway, John, came at the age of eighteen to Plymouth in 1635; removed to 
Taunton; resided awhile at Barnstable, then removed to Yarmouth; son^ Thomas, 

John, Gideon and Edward; William Shepherd calls him brother 45 

Ha WARD, Hayward, John, of Plymouth in 1637, volunteered for the Pequot War; 
removed to Duxbury, then to Bridgewater. John, Junior, born in 1653. Thomas, 
tailor, of Aylesford, England, with wife Susannah and five children came in 1634: 
resided at Cambridge, Duxbury and Bridgewater; a man of some consequence, a justice 

of the peace; left sons Elisha and Joseph 77,86 

Hawkins, Job, a Boston man 14 

Hewer, cockney for Ewer, q. v 12 

Hewett, Solomon 86 

HicKES, Hix, Efhraim, a son of Robert, felmonger, from Southwark, England, in 
1621, settled in Plymouth; M.argaret, Robert's widow, administered on the estate of 
her son; she had another son Samuel, and a daughter Phebe who married George Watson, 

a witness to her bond 10 

HiGGiNS, Benjamin, a son of Richard, tailor, an early settler at Plymouth, who 

removed with other children to New Jersey c± 

HiMSHAW, Edmund u 

Hinckley, Thomas, came as a boy with his father Samuel and mother Sarah 
from Tenterden, England, in the Hercules in March, 1634; removed with the family 
to Barnstable; became governor of Plymouth colony .... 34,59,60,72,88,123 

Hodgson, Robert 122 

HoLBROOK, Abigail, and Mary, married daughters of Michael Pearce, and Eliza- 
beth, a granddaughter 128 

Hollett (Hallett) John, at Scituate in 1643 121 

HoLLiWAY, William, of Marshfield in 1637; wife Grace and daughters ... 96 
Holmes, Maj. William, Plymouth, officer in Pequot War in 1637; also did 
service in the Parliamentary Army in England; returned hither and died at Boston 

November 12, 1649 i^ 

Hoskins (Hodgskins) William 119 

House, Edmund; Hannah, Joseph and Samuel, children of Samuel, who came to 

Scituate before 1635, and died in 1661 9, 19, 48 

Howes, John ^g 

Howl.\nd, Arthur, an early settler at Duxbury; Henry, taxed there in 1632, had 
son Samuel; and John, whom Alorton calls (when he died February 23, 1672-3) "a 
profitable instrument of good; the last man that was left of those that came over in the 



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ship called the May Flower that arrived at Plymouth," a magistrate and vigorous leader 
among the colonists; had sons Jabez, Isaac and Joseph and grandson James, who 

appear in these pages 27,39,64,70,83,99 

HuBBEARD, John 85 

HucKiNS, Thomas, of Barnstable in 1643, a town officer 60,63 



Hunt, Peter, Lieutenant, Rehoboth 



95 



Hunt, Samuel 56 

Hunter, Jonathan loi 

Hurst, Gertrude, wife of James, a planter at Plymouth, taxed in 1632, freeman, 
1633, who died in 1657. Her estate was settled by one of her grandchildren whose 

name is not given 68, 90 

Irishman, see Cornelius. 

Jackson, Abraham, and Remember 26, 80, 109 

Jacob, David 76 

James, William 128 

Jenkins (Ginkins) Edward, came in the employ of Nathaniel Tilden in 1634 to 
Scituate; John inhabitant of Plymouth and freeman in 1636, wife Mary, sons Zecha- 

riah ifi a/j.,' Joel, a resident of Swansea 38, 44, 4S, 49, 78, 81, in, 125, 129 

Jones, Robert, died November 17, 1691, owning property in several places in 

Jones, Samuel 18 

Jordan, John, tailor, of Plymouth, 1640, etc 26,91 

Joyce, John, of Sandwich in 1638 and of Yarmouth in 1743, will dated November 
20, proved IVIarch 5, 1666; son Hosea. Walter, family unknown ■ I9i 5°, 52 

King, Clement ... 71 

King, Thomas, came in 1635; settled at Scituate; died in 1692 47 

Kingsley, John, early settler and church member at Dorchestex; removed to 

Rehoboth; died in 1678-9 18 

Knapp, Aaron 99 

Lassell, Thomas, son of John, of Hingham, a town officer 60 

Layton, George 122 

Liech, John 83 

Leonard, Philip, and Thomas 19,36,125 

Lettice, Thomas, carpenter, Plymouth, 1636; freeman, town officer; wife Anne; 
daughter Dorothy married Edward Gray; other daughters; he died in 1681 ... 55 

Lewis (Lues), George, and Joseph 35,111 

Little, Thomas, of Plymouth in 1632; removed to Marshfield; died in 1671; sons 

Isaac, Ephraim, Thomas and Samuel '4' I9> 33i 55 

LoRiNG, C.A^LEB, wifc Lydia, daughter of Edward Gray. Dr. Loring was a grand- 
son of Dea. Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, England, to Hingham, Mass., 

in 1634 • . 87 

LoTHROP, Mark, Salem, proprietor in 1642; a kinsman of Thomas Lothrop of 

Salem and Beverly, removed to Bridgewater; son Samuel 55 

Lowe, John 71 

Lucas, Thomas 85 

Lues, see Lewis 

Lumbart (Lombard), Thomas, of Barnstable, innkeeper; sons Bernard and 

Joshua 35 

LuMKiN, William, weaver, freeman and proprietor at Yarmouth in 1638; wife 

Thomasin 93 

Macumber, William, Dorchester, cooper, removed to Plymouth in 1638; removed 
to Duxbury and Marshfield; sons John, Matthew and Thomas removed to Taunton . 120 

Man, Richard, Scituate in 1648; drowned February 16, 1665; widow married 
John Cowen, who was bound to pay their portions to her youngest children, Richard, 

Thomas and Joseph 41 

Marshall, John, son of Robert and Mary, daughter of John Barnes, of Plym- 
outh, q. V 56 

Miller, Rev. John, Dorchester, in 1635; then at Roxbury, where he was elder; 
then minister at Rowley; at Yarmouth; some time at Groton where he died June 14, 

1663. His son John, resided at Yarmouth 37, 53 

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Morton, George, of York, England, joined the Pilgrim church at Leyden, Hoi- 
land; married there Julia A;in Carpenter, sister of the wife of Gov. William Bradford; 
came to Plymouth in the J7i?if in 1623; his son Nathaniel, long time secretary of the 
colony, wrote a history based chiefly on Bradford's, called "Mourt's Relation; or New 
England's Memorial"; Ephraim and John were worthy sons; Lydia and George of the 
same family . 10, 18, 26, 29, 57, 71, 73, 75, 92, 97, 108, 109, 112, 1 14, 124, 130, 132 

Mosses, John 81 

Mullens, William, from Dorking, England; one of the chief men in the May- 
flower company; die.d the first year; will proved in London, July 23, 1621; wife Alice; 
sons William and Joseph; daughters Sara (married Blunden) and Priscilla (married 
John Alden) 23 

Nash, Samuel, Duxbury, freeman, 1633; served in Pequot and Narragansett 
Wars, lieutenant; active business man; died in 1682, ae. 80 . 35,40,41,55,120,121 

Nelson, William, Plymouth before 1636; married October 29, 1640, Martha, 
daughter of widow Ford; died in 1679. Sons John and William 42,85 

Newland, William, of Weymouth in 1640; removed to Sandwich; allowed to 
train the townsmen in June, 1645; lieutenant in 1647; deputy; died in 1694 . . 130 

Newman, Samuel, and Noah, sons of Rev. Samuel, long minister at Rehoboth; 
the author of an excellent concordance of the Bible 75, 127 

NicKERSON (Nicholson), Nicholas, son of William, weaver, who came in 1637 
from Norwich, England, with wife Anne (Busbey) and children Nicholas, Robert, 
Elizabeth and Anne; settled at Boston but soon removed to Yarmouth. A man of 
independent mtnd. AIary, wife of Nicholas 21 

NoRCUTT (Northcoat), William, of Yarmouth in 1643 and in service against the 
Narragansetts in 1645; married Sarah, daughter of Ralph Chapman, of Alarshfield . . no 

Ormsbee (Ormsby), John, and Thomas, sons of Richard, a resident of Haverhill in 
1650; of Salisbury some time, then of Rehoboth, where he died in 1664 . . 75,76,117,127 

Paddie, William, a London merchant, "skinner," who came to Plymouth in the 
James in 1635; was a partner in the Maine trade; married daughter of Edmond Free- 
man; removed to Boston 9 

Paine, John, son of William, a wealthy merchant of Ipswich and Boston; had 
property in the Iron Works at Taunton 13 

Paine, Mis(tress), Sarah 85 

Palmer, Josiah, son of John, who settled at Hingham about 1637 and some time 
later removed to Scituate 90 

Palmer, William, Jr., son of William, a nailer by trade,, who came with wife 
Frances and son William in the Fortune to Plymouth in 1621 ; Elizabeth, wife of 
William, Jr., married second, John Willis 9 

Pearse, William 14 

Peirce, Michael, of Hingham in 1645; removed to Scituate; wife Anna; children, 
Abyah, Anah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Ephraim, Ruth and Sarah Peirce and Abigail 
and Mary Holbrook. Michael was slain in battle in King Philip's War, in 1676 38, 'y^, 128 

Perry, Sara 15 

Peterson, Benjamin, John I9>94 

Phibens, Philip 47 

Phillips, Benjamin, John 19 

Pitney, James, feltmaker, Marshfield, 1643; died in March, 1663-4; son James, 
daughter Abigail and daughter Sarah, wife of John Thontas 24 

Pollard, John 100 

Pool, John 109 

PoLOCK, see Rollock 

Pratt, Benajah, wife Persis; Jonathan 14,25 

Prence, Thomas, came in the Fortune in 1621; Governor, 1633 an,d at other times. 
An efficient rulei. Left no son but seven daughters, viz.: Hannah (married Nathaniel 
Mayo), Jane (married Mark Snow), Rebecca (married Edmund Freeman), Mercy (mar- 
ried John Freeman), Mary (married Tracye), Sara (married Howes), and 

Judith (married Isaac Barker); resided at Eastham 9, 20 

Prince, Samuel 92 



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Ps.ioR, Joseph, one of the sons of Thomas, malster, from Watford, England, who 
came early and died in 1639; resided at Scituate 39 

Prouty, see Torrey, post. 

PuRDANE, see Burden. 

Ramsden, Joseph, Plymouth before 1641 1 19 

RicKARD (Ricker) Gyles, weaver, Plymouth, freeman in 1641; town officer; sons 
John and Gyles 43, 108 

Rider, Samuel, one of the freemen and proprietors of Yarmouth, 1638; town 
officer, captain; sons Benjamin, Samuel, Zecharl\h and Joseph .... 23,67,71 

Ring, Andrew, son of widow Alary, who died in 1633; sons Willl^m and Eieazer. 
Samuel (grandson.'') 26,85,114 

RoBBiNS, John, of Bridgewater 86 

RoBBiNS, John and Jehosabath, of Plymouth 91 

Robinson, Isaac, son of Re\ . John Robinson, the beloved and honored minister 
of the Pilgrim church (who was not able to come from Leyden to Plymouth, but had 
great influence still). Isaac came in 163 1; resided awhile at Scituate; removed to 
Barnstable; deputy; recommended clemency toward Quakers; sons Isaac, Israel and 

Jacob ... • ■ ;. 92 

Robinson, Increase, son of William, of Dorchester 13 

Rogers (Roggers) John, probably son of Thomas who came in the Mayflotver 

to Plymouth; Timothy, of Marshfield 21,85 

Rollock (Rawlock, Rolliff, Polock) Robert 31,82 

Rouse, John, in the employ of Thomas Prence till 1634; resided Marshfield; wife 

Annis, sons John and Simon, daughters 39 

Rowley, Henry, of Plymouth in 1632; removed to Scituate, then to Barnstable; 

sons Moses, Shubael, Aaron and John, and daughters loi 

Russel, John, of Marshfield . 96 

Samson (Sampson), Henry, a nephew of Mr. Edward and Mrs. Ann Tillie, came 
with them in the Mayflozver to Plymouth; resided at Duxbury; served in the Pequot 
War in 1637; commissioner of court; died in 1684; sons Stephen, John, James and 

Caleb; four daughters 5^' 

Sanford, John, a Boston settler in 1630; removed to Rhode Island and was one 

of the signers of its constitution 10 

S.vunders (Sanders, Sanderson) Henry, of Sandwich 31,110 

Saunders, Joseph, of Rochester loi 

Savory, Thomas, came in 1634 to Plymouth; one of the party at the Kennebec 

that year; wife Anne; see Genealogy 51,13° 

Seabury, John, and Samuel, sons of John, seaman, of Boston in 1639; Samuel 

lived at Duxbury, John died at Barbadoes 126 

Sears, Robert, of Rehoboth 126 

Shaw, "9 

Shaw, John, of Boston; Jonathan, of Plymouth 75,^5 

Shepherd, William, of Taunton; brother John Hathaway; children, Samuel, et als. 45 
Sherman, William, taxed at Duxbury in 1632; removed to Marshfield; town 
officer; died October 25, 1679. Wife, Prudence Hill. Children, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, 
Experience, Hannah, Patience, Samuel, John and William .... 18,20,40 

Shertliff (Shurtleff, etc^), William, of Plymouth and Marshfield; wife Eliza- 
beth, daughter Thomas Lettice, survived and married second, Jacob Cooke; son 

William ; " ' . • • ■ 54, 68 

Silvester (Sylvester) John, Joseph, Naomi, wife and children of Richard, who 
was an early settler at Dorchester; applied for freemanship October 19, 1630; re- 
moved to Weymouth and to Marshfield .24,37,79 

Simons (Simonson), Moses, came in the Fortune in 1621 to Plymouth; his father 
had been a communicant of "the Dutch churcii at Leyden"; wife Patience, sons 

Moses, Aaron, John and Job; daughters 39 

Skeffe, James, of Plymouth, worked for Isaac Allerton and had land for it; bought 
other land in 1636; removed to Sandwich. Town officer, deputy; wife Mary, sons 
James, Stephen (magistrate), Nathaniel, Benjamin, Nathan; daughters . . . 31,77,92 

Smith, Henry and Daniel, sons of Henry, who came from Norfolkshire and 
settled first at Hingham, removing later to Re,hoboth; deacon and deputy . 52, 62, 95, 109 



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Smith, Rev. John, of Barnstable, minister at Sandwich some time. Favored the 
Quakers hav'ing Hberty; wife, Susanna, sister of Governor Hinckle; sons Samuel, 

Shubael, John, Benjamin, Ichabod, Thomas, Joseph; daughters 12 

Smith, John, of Plymouth, 1633; married Bennett Morecock 85 

Smith, John, of Rehoboth 76, 97 

Smith, John, of Taunton 120 

Smith, John, of Yarmouth 51 

Smith, Ralph, of Eastham, came from Hingham, England, to Charlestown in 
1633; removed to Hingham in 1636; to Eastham in 1653; wife Grace, sons S.amuel, 

John, Daniel; daughters 54 

Smith, Richard, of Taunton, 1638; married Ruth Bonum; their estates adminis- 
tered upon by Benjamin Smith 46 

Smith, William, of Rehoboth, 1643; town officer 117 

Snell, Thomas, of Bridgewater 55 

Snow, Jabez, son of Nicholas, who came to Plymouth in 1623, and married Con- 
stance, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the M ay flower , from London. The 

Snows removed to Eastham 54 

Soule, Aaron, of Duxbury 90 

Soule, George, servant to Edward Winslow, came in the Mayflower to Plymouth; 
served in the Pequot War in 1637; commissioner of court in 1640; sons John, Nathaniel, 

George; daughters. Zechariah (wife Margaret) 26,39,56 

Southworth, Constant, stepson of Gov. William Bradford, came early to Plym- 
outh; assistant; sons Edward, Nathaniel, William; daughters . . . 39, 60, 67, 99, 1 19 

SouTHWORi*H, Thomas, brother of Constant, resided at Duxbury; captain; 
assistant; wife Elizabeth Reynor; daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Howland; no 

other child named in will; he died December 8, 1669 67, 81 

Sprague, Samuel, born in 1640, was son of Francis who came to Plymouth in 
1623; a man of great ability and usefulness, clerk of Plymouth County, etc. 

17, 19, 60, 64, 67, 73, 75, 79, 81, 83, 89, 132 

Sprout, Ebenezer 89 

Standish, Captain Myles, came in the Mayflower^ signed the compact, was a 
defence to the colony from Indian enemies and a tender nurse of the sick in time of 
e,pidemic (see Bradford's history); a brave, tireless worker for public weal; a sagacious 
magistrate and worthy character; wife Rose died January 29, 1620-1, and he married 

second, Barbara ; sons Alexander, Charles, John, Myles and Josiah; died in 1657 30, 117 

Standlick, Richard, son Daniel 52 

Stanford, Robert 19-37 

Stetson (Stutson), Joseph, Jr., grandson of Cornet Robert, inhabitant of Dux- 
bury in 1642-3, who died in 1702 89 

Stevens (Stephens), Edward, Marshfield, farmer; died before March i, 1689- 
1690, when his will was proved (called John, son of William Sherman, brother) . . 19 

Stevens, Francis, Sen 76 

Stockbridge, John, wheelwright, se. 27, came in 1635, with wife Ann and son 
Charles, se. i year; the latter became a prominent citizen of Scituate; had sons Thomas, 

Charles and Samuel 77, 78, 80 

Streat (Street), Francis, Taunton 43 

Sturtevant, Samuel, of Plymouth before 1641; planted land on shares; town 
officer; sons Samuel, James, John, Joseph, son-in-law John Waterman; daughters . 73, 83 

Summers, John 86 

Suttliffe, Abraham 41 

Sutton, Johne, of Scituate, carpenter, son of John, who came from Attleborough, 

England, and settled at Hingham 15,19,24,26,29 

Swift, Willi.a^m, lived at Watertown in 1636; at Sudbury in 1642; removed to 
Sandwich; died in 1642-3; wife Joane and Daniel Wing administered; she died in 1662 

and son William settled the estate 29,31 

Symonds, Harlakinden, of Ipswich, son of Mr. Samuel 100 

Taylor, Richard, of Yarmouth before 1643; wife Ruth Whelding;; sons John and 

Joseph; five daughters 53,114 

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coast of Massachusetts; reed, the island which bears his name; came to Yarmouth 
before 1639; deputy; died in 1667. Wife Mary and (son ?) John administered on his 
estate . , . . ■ • .-. •. • 17,23, 5^', 53 

Thacher, JuDAH, of Yarmouth, widow Alary administered in 1676 .... 123 

Thayer, Richard, son of Richard, who came from Thornbury, England, in 1641 
and settled at Braintree 13 

Thomas, John, c^me as a boy of fourteen in 1635; settled at Marshfield; married 
Sarah, daughter of James Petney; sons John, Samuel, Daniel, James, Ephraim; two 
daughters 70,89 

Thomas, Nathaniel, born about 1606, at Marshfield in 1636, son of William who 
was born in 1573 and came very early to Marshfield 17, 39,41, 57, 100 

TiLDEN, Joseph, son of Nathaniel (who came from Tenterden, England, in 1634, 
bringing wife Lydia, seven children and seven servants; settled at Scituate; ruling 
elder in the church; town officer) 47 

TiLSON, Ephraim, son of John, grandson of Edmond, vvho came before 1638 to 
Plymouth, died in 1660 116 

TiNCOME (Tinkham), Ephraim, in the employ of Timothy Hatherly before 1634; 
settled at Scituate; sergeant; died in 1685; sons Ephraim, Ebenezer, Peter, Elkiah, 
John, Isaac, daughter Mary Thomson 83,90 

Titus, John, came at the age of eight years, in 1635, with his father Robert, 
mother Hannah and brother Edmond to Boston; settled at Re hoboth .... 15 

ToBEY (Tobye), Thomas, of Sandwich, 1644; died in 1710. Sons Thomas, John, 
Nathan, Ephraim, Jonathan, Samuel, Gershom; daughters 82 

ToMSON (Thomson, Tompson), John, of Barnstable (was he the man who was at 
Plymouth in 1643?) 109 

ToRREY, Lieut. James, son of Philip and Alice Torrey, of Combe St. Nicholas, 
Dorset; came in 1637; settled at Scituate; freeman in 1655; ae. 44 in 1657; married Ann, 
daughter of William Hatch; died in 1665. Sons James, William, Joseph, Jonathan, 
Josiah, daughters Damaris (mhrried Richard Prouty), Mary (Ewer), Joanna (Lam- 
bert), and Bethiah (Woodward) 40,46,52 

Tracy (Trasie), John, Jr., grandson of Stepiien, saymaker, who was married at 

Leyden, Holland, in 1 62 1, toTriphose Le ; came to Plymouth in 1623; was at Great 

Yarmouth, England, in 1654 and made arrangements for the division of his estate at 
Duxbury between his son John and other children living in New England. John, Jr., 
was notified of a general law about moving into towns (see note on page l) . . . 86 

Trowbridge, John 19 

Tupper, Thomas, shoemaker, Lynn, 1637; removed to Sandwich; died March 28, 
1676, "in 98th year and 2d month." Thomas, Jr., his son 52,110 

Turner, Nathaniel, was a son and Jonathan a grandson of Humphrey who 
was at Plymouth in 1632 and at Scituate soon after; died in 1673. Abigail, wife of 
Nathaniel 37, 78, 80 

Vaughan, George 113 

ViNAL, John, resided at Sc'ituate; Stephen, Scituate (two of the name) one of 
them proposed for freeman in 1638; one administrator of estate of Anna V'inal in 1664 77, 121 

Wade (Weade), Nicholas, wife Elizabeth, Scituate, 1683 32 

Wadsworth, Christopher, Duxbury, 1632; constable; slain by the Indians in 
1676; widow Grace died in 1688; sons John and Joseph 9 

Wanton, Edward no 

Warren, Joseph, son of Richard, a prominent member of the Mayflower com- 
pany; Nathaniel, another son 56,62,75 

Watson, George, freeman at Plymouth in 1633, wife Piicbc (Hix) . . 10,43,109 

West, Samuel, Ruth 39 

Wetherel, Witherell, Rev. William, came in 1634-5 to Charlestown; teacher; 
minister at Scituate from 1644; son Samuel, rt a//. 40,99 

Wharton, goodman 24 

Wheaton, Samuel, wife Elizabeth, Swansey 34 

Whetstone, Whiston, John, came in 163 1; resided Scituate; died in 1664; widow 
Susanna married William Brooks; s.on Joseph and other children 37 

White, Going, Timothy 33)48 



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WiLLETT, Thomas, Plymouth, 1633; captain, assistant, active at the Kennebec, 

etc.; sons James, Hezekiah, Andrew, Samuel 10 

Williams, Hugh 24 

Williams, John, son of John, farmer at Scituate in 1689 62,68 

Williams, Nathaniel and Samuel, sons of Richard, tanner, and his wife Eliza- 
beth, of Dorchester and Taunton 120, 125 

Williamson, Timothy, son of Timothy of Marshfield, 1637 19 

Willis, John, of Duxbury, married Elizabeth, widow of William Palmer, Jr.; 

large family and many descendants 59 

Willis, Richard, son of Richard who was in Plymouth before 1634, by wife 

Amey (Glasse) 50, 112 

Wilmott, Thomas 115 

Wing, John, son of Rev. John and Deborah (Bachiler) Wing, of England and 
Holland, came with widowed mother and brothers to Sandwich, removed to Yarmouth .32,10^ 

Winslow, Edward, son of Mr. Edward, of Droitwich, England, came in the May- 
flower and had large influence in shaping the life of the colony; wrote "Hypocrisy Un- 
masked," "Good News from New England" and numerous papers; died abroad Alay 8, 
1655. Sons Edward, John, Josiah (signed "Josias, Jr.") Gilbert, brother of 
Edward, came in the Mayflower; returned to England. John, brother of Edward, came 
in the Fortune in 1621; removed to Boston; sons Benjamin, Edward, John and Isaac. 
Josiah, brother of Edward, came in 163 1; settled at Marshfield; sons Jonathan and 
Josiah, Kenelm, brother of Edward, came to Marshfield before 1633; sons Kenelm, 

Nathaniel and Job 11,13,20,24,64,69,86,102 

WiNSOR, Joseph, of Sandwich 31 

Wood, Woods, John, Thomas 36, 85 

Wood, alias Atwood, Henry, of Plymouth and Middleborough; sons John, 

Samuel, Abial and James 27,111,117 

Wood, John, wife Sarah, Plymouth in 1636 (Masterson); John, Nathaniel and 

Isaac 85, 124 

WooDwoRTH, Benjamin 129 

Wright, Adam, Ester . 94,116 



